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Video Centre Plus and
Fred Fish on CD-ROM
reviewed ... 17-18

ST
JW Stereo Replay and
Syntex reviewed....17-18

Dusseldorf show, MiG
29 Super Fulcrum and
bar code problems with
Gallup, all examined...54

PC

PC games growth is
389 per cent, is the PC
all set to take over from the
ST and Amiga?..............5

Excel 3 and Avagio 2
reviewed... 17

Zortech's C++
packages, Wordstar
for Windows and
Norton Utilities 6.01 all
on one раде!.............. 56

MACINTOSH

A sneak preview of the
MacUser show.............24

Vicom appears in budget
version PLUS
SpaceMaker file
compression ...............24

СРС

How to make your CPC talk
to a PCW PLUS Plotting
гемїеме.....................25

C64

TIB's 3.5-inch drive
arrives at last! PLUS The
Rainbow Collection
reviewed ..................29

SPECTRUM
Operation Hanoi hacks
and a new Sam Coupé
fanzine launched ......... 32

CONSOLES

Sega in yet another
promotion plus a jab at...4

The Console column brings
you news of a new
Gameboy , Pinball for
the PC Engine and the first
game for the Mega CD

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14 September 1991 * Express 149

COVER STORY

Is the PC format the future?

You wouldn't think it now but judging by its current
UK growth rate, the PC will displace the Amiga to
become the games market leader by 1996. Find
out why and what it implies on page 5

* Wing Commander 2: making sure PC games take off in a big way

THIS WEEK

News: All the latest updates - page 4-7
—

What's New
A £650 colour VGA monitor for only £299, a

portable ink-jet printer the size of a Psion

Organiser, Fax documents direct from Windows 3 Cis pale eee Mka ON
and the fastest CD-ROM on the market — page 8 for only £249

COVER DISK 1

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THE EXPRESS FEATURE ES

State of the art computer graphics
This year's Siggraph expo in Las Vegas showcased all
the latest developments in digital delights and more.
Find out just how far-out the future will be on pages
14 &15

* The shape of screens to come? - there's no limits anymore!

INSIDE INFORMATION

The Amiga, ST & PC pages
Three jam-packed pages detailing

all the hottest news and rumour

about your machine plus the most
essential reviews and tips

- pages 53, 55 & 56

* What with all this peace
breaking out in the USSR
it comes as a bit of a
shock to see MiGs flying
over South America, but
that's what's happening
on the ST this week

Public Domain
The essential guide to the best in low-cost software — pages 58, 59, 60 & 61

Games Week

Grandstand review and more tips for Populous
PLUS: Magic Pockets from the Bitmaps - just a re-write?
— pages 62 & 63

* Magic Pockets is another game from the makers of Gods but is it any good?

SHOPPING EXPRESS

16-bit reviews 17 CPC 25 Consoles - 33
Letters 21 C64 29 TechTips 36
Mac 24 Spectrum 32 On-line 49

14 SEPTEMBER 1991 • NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • З

THIS WEEK

Knight and easy does it

Knightmare , the cult children’s TV
dungeon-saga show is to have a computer
game based on it.

Programmed by the author of the
highly successful Captive, and published
by Mindscape, the game will closely follow
the pattern of the kiddies cult which is now
entering its fifth series. Knightmare itself
has undergone some radical changes from
its format with greater and more
sophisticated use of computer graphics
and a revamp of content.

The game of the show is not expected
to hit the streets until nearer Christmas,
and the show itself is still being edited.

The only way to get a copy of the
game, by the way, is to join The Quest,
which is the Knightmare club. Membership

television, or at least more
computer graphics with the new,
updated series of kiddies cult
classic Knightmare

is £3.95 and lasts until August 1992. For
more information сай 0603 615151. Ш

Snack attack!

Sega has signed yet another deal in order to
increase sales of its 8-bit Master System and
16-bit Mega Drive consoles.

This time it's with Golden Wonder. And in a
jibe at competitor, the vast Japanese console
maker Nintendo, which recently tied up a deal
with Walkers crisps, a Sega spokesman said:
"Unlike other recent on-pack deals in the crisps
and snacks market, the Golden Wonder promo-
tion offers consumers a guaranteed reward”.

By collecting 20 packets of Wotsits or Ringos
and sending them in, snackers can get a free
Sega Fun pack containing badges, stickers, a
poster and an iron-on patch. And if that’s not
enough there's also a chance to win a Master
System II too.

Look out for the TV adverts, and the start of
the promotion from October.

CANON VIDEO CAMERA

HITS THE HIGH STREET

In a bid to popularise its revolutionary still
video camera, the lon, Canon is to open
print bureaux for the machine.

The High Street service will be controlled
by Amiga 500s, and a Canon colour video
printer, the RP-731 will print the photos.

According to Canon's European market-
ing manager Mr Satoshi Imai: "For users it will
give excellent value since they do not have to
print out all the images taken. It's a case of
keep the best, erase the rest".

Unlike conventional photograph develop-
ers, which at best can only normally offer a
24-hour turnaround, Canon maintains that its

EXPRESS...

If you are a reader in Ireland,
or have received any PC

system will take an amazing two minutes.

Users will be able to choose from single
prints, four image prints and even a 25-shot
picture directory printed on photographic paper
and taken directly from disk. The printer can
also add captions and the date of the shoot.

It is intended that the lon Print Service
will be set up in 1,000 High Streets including
video, camera and hi-fi outlets throughout
Great Britain and Europe by the end of 1992.

The Canon lon costs £499.99 and was
given an excellent review in Express' issue
129. For more information, contact Canon on
081-459 1266.

|

* Now you've spent £500 оп the
amazing Canon lon camera, you'll
need to print the pictures. Canon's
printing bureaux will be on your local
High Street soon

ST ATonce emulator is a world first

software from the Emerald The Vortex ATonce-386SX emu- — Fast-RAM, again from Vortex, to
Isle - check it for the PC VRS lator is the world’s first such е setup, then й is estimated that
DC virus. It has a trigger date device for the Atari ST. the rate moves up to 15.6 MIPs, a

of the 23rd of the month. The
next occurence of this is in
September.

«SNIPPET

Gates in Europe |

Microsoft's chief executive offi-
cer and millionaire driving force,
Bill Gates, is in Europe this
week addressing the European
Conference and Exhibition on
Multimedia and CD-ROM.

His company, which is
responsible юг MS-DOS,
Windows, Word, Excel and
Works, is launching the
Multimedia Development Kit, and
a set of operating system exten-
sions called Windows 3 +
Multimedia Extentions 1.0.

With Microsoft, the biggest
software publisher in the world,
now firmly backing multimedia, its
future seems to be assured.

It comprises a 32-bit CMOS
80386SX central processing unit
running at the rapid clip of 16MHz
and also makes use of the Mega
ST's cache RAM.

Vortex is also claiming that
under the Norton SI benchtest,
the emulator managed 12.3 mil-
lion instructions per second
(MIPs) when running at 16MHz.

If you decide to add 512K of

more than respectable rate even
for a full 386SX

Also available for the system
is an 80387 maths co-processor
which wil be of assistance in
number intensive operations such
as Computer Aided Design.

If your STE has at least 1Mb
of RAM then the emulator will
allow for 704K DOS memory. If
your STE has more than 1Mb fit-

ted then you will be able to
access the total memory in
extended or expanded mode.

The system runs unrestricted

in protected mode, supports the |

SCSI hard disks, and Atari AHDI-
compatible hard disks. It supports
CGA, Hercules, EGA and VGA
Standards. At present, only Mega
STEs are supported, however,
UK distributor Silica Shop is plan-
ning to ship the 520STE version
as soon as it becomes available.
Silica is on 081-309 1111. #

Talking Tolkien

And the small brown furry Amiga owner did head

for the dark games emporium of Elread and there

he did discover Lord of the Rings for his machine.

Interplay Productions has finally converted
the first part of the Tolkien trilogy for the Amiga.
You play Frodo son of Bilbo as you make your
way to the end of The Fellowship of the Ring, the
epic hippy hit. The remaining two parts of the.
trilogy are already in planning, but for now have
your machine ready for an October release. Ш

4 *NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS * 14 SEPTEMBER 1991

EXPRESS
COMMENT:
THE PC
EXPLOSION

last it's happening -

PC games are here ina

big way. Just like the
self-appointed industry
pundits said they would be. It
Just took a few years longer
than they said, that's all.

Software houses are
delighted. From Accolade to
US Gold by way of Electronic
Arts and Ocean, they've all
been watching the PC's
agonisingly slow development
with pound signs in their
eyes, a certain wetness of the
lips and a generally feverish
demeanour.

Desperation

Indeed, perhaps the most
extraordinary evidence of this
came earlier this year, when
Ocean ran PC games
advertising - in Amiga Format
and ST Format magazines!
That's how desperate things
were getting.

Well, now it's happening.
‘Amstrad has unveiled its new
PC games bundles;
Commodore is apparently
timing its move for Christmas;
at last there's a half-decent РС
magazine about to be
launched (PC Format); and PC
games software sales are
finally reaching critical mass,
both in terms of quantity and
quality.

ST in danger

Does this matter to users of
Amigas and STs? Well, yes, it
does, actually. Software
houses with roots Stateside –
EA, Microprose and
Mirrorsoft's Cinemaware – аге
increasingly dubious about
bothering with ST releases.
With no American ST market,
they could be ploughing their
Programming efforts into PCs,
why bother with the ST?

Threat to Amiga

Amiga users also need to
watch out. OK, so at least
there are some Amigas in the.
States - but it's still very
much a PC world. There may
well be 700,000 Amigas in
Britain, as Steve Franklin
would have us believe — but.
there are millions of PCs.

If the people who use
PCs every day at work ever
discover how much more
there is to life than Tetris or a
pirated, manual-less copy of
an early version of Flight Sim,
‘owners of the ST and Amiga
could be in for tough times. W

-

Latest software figures show PC overtaking ST, moving up on Amiga

PC GAMES UP 400%

The UK computer leisure market is
heading for one of the biggest shake-
ups for many years. The Commodore
Amiga/Atari ST two-way fight is finally
being threatened by a third force, in the
shape of the РС.

Following hard on the heels of
Amstrad's PC Games Pack launch (see
Express 148), Commodore — which already
markets Europe's most successful 16-bit
games machine, the Amiga — is dropping
heavy, though guarded, hints that it is to
launch its own games PC this Christmas.

On the other hand, it is in
Commodore's interests to give the impres-
Sion it has a PC leisure bundle waiting in
the wings, if only as a spoiler to Amstrad's
16-bit leisure invasion.

AMIGA UNDER PRESSURE
If nothing else, Commodore's comments
indicate it is having to look seriously at the

PC as a major league leisure software for- |

mat, and as a threat to the Amiga's hitherto
seemingly unassailable position.

In fact the computer leisure industry is
now beginning to sit up and take notice of
the PC, previously seen as a staid, boring
business tool.

Increasingly software houses are
releasing games for the format. Publishers

such as Psygnosis, with the best selling
Lemmings, Lucasfilm, with the tremen-
dously successful Secret of Monkey Island,
US Gold with Links Golf, Ocean with
Gauntlet 3 — all are looking at the rapid
growth in PC sales (see box).

THE PC IS THE FUTURE
Amstrad insists that its move into 16-bit
games has a brilliant future. According to
an Amstrad spokesman this week: “It's the
future. The PC is an all round machine. It
will beat the ST and Amiga in the long run.

“People with a lack of judgement as to
what is required from a computer,” he went
on, ‘will continue to buy STs and Amigas
for a while yet, but the home budget cannot
support a machine which is purely games
based, and how many people really use
their STs and Amigas for anything else?"

Commodore's Kelly Sumner views this
attitude with some cynicism: "Yes, techni-
cally there are more PCs in the UK market
than any other. Amstrad has a point. But in

| terms of leisure, they're being quite silly.

"Actually, they're crazy, living in cloud
cuckooland if they think they'll be outselling
the Amiga or the Atari ST in the near future!

“As far as I'm concerned — and the

figures back this up — the Amiga has a 35 |

to 40 per cent market share in the leisure

HOW THE THREE FORMATS STACK UP

An analysis of full-price sales compiled
by the European Leisure Software
Publishers Association (ELSPA) from the
sales returns of 15 leading games
houses over the period July 1990 to June
1991 reveals some interesting trends.

Of the 2,439,058 games sold 759,438
were Amiga titles — that's a respectable
2996 share of the entire games market.
By comparison ST and PC games sales
across the period accounted for 12% and
9% respectively.

But of more long term interest are
the tremendous inroads the PC is making
into the leisure arena. In July 90, only

6,700 PC games were sold in the UK,
while a year later the figure was 26,300 -
a massive increase of 389%.

Even though the Amiga's share of
the market has risen to 38% in the last
three months, the PC's growth rate is
currently averaging 60% each month!.

In July last year the PC had only 6%
of the market, but by June 1991 this had
risen to nearly 13%. By comparison, the
‘ST began this same 12 month period with
15%, steadily dropping to 11%. Since
May, more games have been bought by
PC owners than ST ones. And that's a
trend which looks to set to continue.

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THE SHAPE OF WINGS TO COME

Itis a generally
accepted fact that the
sucess of the PC as
business machine was
made by Lotus 1-2-3.
Now a game is to be
launched which could
do the same for the
machine in terms of its
gaming credibility.
Wing Commander
2, from Origin is a 3D
space combat game
which is already being

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touted as the best
thing ever seen on the
PC or any other
machine for that
matter. Elite, the old

* Is this going to be the software which drives the
PC into the games market with the same force that
Lotus 1-2-3 drove it into business? Wing
Commander 2 is already being touted as the best
thing on the screen of a home computer

benchmark, does not
even get a look in according to many
respected games players who have seen
early versions.

WC2 features animated, raytraced
linking sequences, digitised images and

area. The PC is growing but it has a long,
long, long way to go before it catches up

with the Amiga.”

ATARI DENIES THREAT
Troubled Atari also has a few points to
bring to the attention of the person thinking
of buying a new machine. The company's
long-serving spokesman, Peter Walker told
us: “Amstrad is not even in our market. We
don't feel threatened by the current taking
up of the PC leisure market, which is being
heightened by the need to sell PCs.

“From what they're saying, it sounds
like they've got to sell a lot of PCs. Maybe
they're being aggressive” he suggested,
somewhat bitchily, "because they're not
happy price wise?”

And indeed the price differential has
long been a major factor in hampering the
PC's rise to power in the highly profitable
gaming world. Now, however, with colour

real speech. It is said to be fast, furious
and highly playable even on a standard
286. But with VGA graphics on a 386 it
will look the real biz. WC2 will be
available from Origin later іп the year .

286 machines dropping sharply in price as
the 386 and 486 processors take over in
the business world, margins are narrowing.

THE PRICE IS WRONG
Commodore dropping hints about a new
machine, whether it materialises as a real
machine or not, suggests that there are
worries within the industry.

There is no doubt that, once price
differences have been worked out, the
average 286 PC will still cost the user
somewhere in the region of £500-£600
more than an Amiga or ST bundle.

However, PCs offer a wider installed
Software base in terms of business and
productivity, and that price will include a
hard disk. And now the software houses
are beginning to commit in a big way, the
PC's future looks rosy and that of its rivals
appears somewhat precarious compared to
this time last year.

14 SEPTEMBER 1991 * NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • 5

THIS WEEK

WordPerfect’s
watching you

If you're using a hookey ver-
sion of any of WordPerfect's
software then you are in immi- |
nent danger of a visit from the
boys in blue.

WordPerfect Corp has
decided to take software piracy of
its products very seriously indeed.
It has already carried out a num-
ber of site inspections with High
Court approval. These have net-
led several thousand pounds |
worth of illegal copies. |

If you think you may have
bought some dodgy WordPerfect
software, check the registration
card. If it is addressed to any-
where other than WordPerfect
UK, then it’s counterfeit.

You will be able to buy the
legal — version for what
WordPerfect calls: *a nominal
fee". For more information call

0932 850500.

|
Philips photo
е
opportunity
Philips is to market PhotoCD
players in the UK and Europe.

The players can handle both
audio and graphical Compact
Discs, and are seen as yet)
another link in the Compact Disc |
Interactive (CD-I) chain.

PhotoCD is a joint project
with Kodak and enables users to
lake pictures in the same way as
they would using a standard
35mm camera. The images can |
then be displayed and stored on
disc, using the player itself, or a
CD-I device.

CD-I players are expected to
appear in Europe in mid-1992 |
with the first PhotoCD players hit-
ling the shops in summer of that
year. Both will be compatible with
each other. |

EXPRESS...

With the help of an £80,000
computer system, six
paintings, two of which are
worth £20,000 each, were
returned to their rightful
home just 10 days after being
stolen. The computer system
is run by the Art Loss

Register.
-..SNIPPET

All the latest launches from the Brentwood boys are confirmed

AMSTRAD'S NIN

Amstrad has confirmed that it is to launch
several new business machines. It has also
confirmed details of its Games Pack PC
and details of the two new PCWs. Both of
the latter were exclusively revealed by
Express in issue 143.

Leading the Essex-based firm's re-entry
into the business market is the PC5000 series.
Already being heralded by industry insiders as
the PC1640s of the 1990's, the two machines
are small footprint designs. They are the
РС5086 and PC5286. Not exactly highly
specified now that the 80286 has been
usurped by the 80386 and even the 80486
microprocessors, the PCs are aimed at the
home users or small businesses.

Next in line are three notebook comput-
ers; the ACL-386SX, ANB-386SX20 and the
ANB-386SX40. The former is a colour version
which makes use of flavour of the month
screen technology, Thin Film transistor (TFT)
liquid crystal display. As should be expected
from such highly specified technology, it sup-
ports VGA.

The other two machines are mono ver-
sions, again using the 80386 processor.
These have already been seen at the CEBIT
show held in the USA in March. The only dif-
ference between the two machines is that the
former comes with a 20Mb hard disk while the
latter has a 40Mb disk. Neither of the mono
notebooks offer the same TFT technology

Up in the air with Evesham

* The PCW 9256. Already revealed by express, it signals the end for 8000s

although they are both back-lit LCD, and VGA
allowing 256 shades of grey to be displayed.

PCWs : NO SURPRISE
The two PCWs come as no surprise to the
industry. It as long been expected that the
8000 series would be dropped, and that due to
problems with the production of 3-inch drives
the PCW range would have to make use of the
the more popular 3.5-inch drives which are
already used in PCs, Macs, Amigas, and STs
as standard. Aside from using these drives

and the inclusion of bubble-jet printers there
has been no real change from the PCW9512.

GAMES BUNDLE

The final launch (again revealed by Express
ahead of the pack) is the PC5286 Games
Pack. Bundled with an Ad-Lib sound card,
speakers, joystick and three highly rated
games, Prince of Persia, Links Golf and F-15
Il, the £899 (plus VAT) price may well pitch the
machine out of the conventional, teen lead
computer leisure market.

* The Amiga is flying high
at the moment as the most
successful 16-bit machine

ever, but this is ridiculous!

Doyen of 16-bit retailing,
Evesham Micros is up in the
air, or at least it will be in
November when it launches
10,000 balloons from the Peb-
ble Mill studios in Birmingham,
in aid of Children in Need.

Evesham's customers will
pay £1 for a ticket, which is then
attached to a balloon. The owner
of the ticket which goes the fur-
thest and is retumed by 31
January 1992 will receive an
Amiga 500 and colour monitor.
The sender of the winning ticket
will win an Atari Lynx. Evesham
Micros is on 0386 765500.

Commodore’s CDTV shocker

Not to be outdone by a picture of a bloody baby advertising clothes,
Commodore has erected a 96 sheet 3D poster which contains real
objects aimed at shocking people into buying CDTV. But how long
the objects will remain attached to the hoarding?

*Not the latest Dire Straits
buck video, #5 Paul J Fran
relation?) winning Amiga animation

Are you an Amiga winner?

The Amiga Centre Scotland has announced
the winners of its 1991 Amiga Animation
Festival.

Judging for the competition, which
offered prizes ranging from Amiga Format
subscriptions to a Harlequin 1500, took place
on 27 August. The judges included a profes-
sional graphic artist, an animator, and a
lecturer in film and television. The quality of
entries was, as usual, high.

A spokesman for the Amiga Centre
Scotland said: “We were very pleased to

б *NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • 14 SEPTEMBER 1991

receive nearly 50 entries this year, and very
impressed with the creativity, originality and
technical quality of many of the animations".

The overall winner in the non-
Commercial class was Paul J Franklin with his
Mondo Data Phage demo. The winner in the
commerical class was Ken Blakey with The
Fly. For a full list of winners call Amiga Centre
Scotland on 031-557 4242.

The total value of all the prizes is esti-
mated at £6,000. Another festival is planned
for next year, so have your palettes primed. #

Н.

| NEWS|

* Exclusive first look pictures of Amstrad's next generation machines | The ST prospero's

| No, C and BASIC are not the
| only programming languages
g | around, the highly revered and
| ancient Fortran is also alive
and looping. Especially for the
| Atari TT, as a new implementa-
| tion has been made available
| tor this machine.
Prospero tor the TT is based
on the already successful ver-

sions for the ST, but has been
reworked to cope with 68030 and

SUGAR SETS OUT HIS STALL - THOSE SPECIFICATIONS IN FULL

е Serial and parallel ports ACL-386SX NOTEBOOK

68881/2 processors used by the

Wasa SIHL

€ PS/2 type mouse е Back-lit TFT colour LCD monitor TT. Price is £199.75.

PS/2 type keyboard € 20MHz 803865X processor For more information call
е MS-DOS 3:3 € 4Mb RAM Prospero Software on 081-741
€ Counterpoint custom frontend е 120Mb hard disk 8531.

€ Built-in micro trackball
PC2086 e rud |

© 8MHz Intel 2086 processor 9 Windows 3 |
© 640K RAM © £4,698.82 | EXPRESS...

0 Two 8-bit expansion slots

@ Single single or double density 1.4Mb
3.5- inch floppy configuration

е Single or double density 1.4Mb 3.5-inch

The world's first satellite
PC5286
© 16MHz Intel 80286 processor

I guided tractor was in

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|

€ 1Mb RAM expandable to 2 or 4Mb onboard floppy and 40Mb hard drive configuration.

© Two 16-bit expansion slots е From £468.82 to £997.57 computer-fed smart card

0 Single 1.44Mb 3.5 floppy configuration reader, the Humberside

е Single 3.5 floppy and single 1.44Mb 3.5 ANB-386SX20 operation is expected to
floppy configuration ANB-386SX40 increase yields from farmer's

€ From £645.07 to £1,173.82 е 16MHz 80386SX | ча.

© 1Mb RAM expandable to 2 or 5Mb (386/20)

2Mb RAM expandable to to 5Mb with

PC5000 RANGE | SNIPPET

Details of the PCW range have already been

с а.

PC5086 & РС5286 SHARED FACETS; custom card carried exclusively in Express , but to recap:

е 300mm wide х 70mm high x 270mm deep — @ 20Mb hard disk/40Mb hard disk € The PCW9256 wil est itu | е е

е 14-inch VGA monitor € 280mm wide x 216mm deep x 52mm high — The PCW9512 Plus will cost £527.57 with Ca tain Zilo
OPTIONS FOR: е VGA mono monitors daisywheel printer, or £645.07 with the

е flatscreen mono VGA with options for: PS/2 type mouse Canon BJ-10e. H Н f

- 042 dot pitch medium resolution colour © Internal custom modem slot Бай machines have paper white | chips in fast
VGA colour © £1,643.82 (20) £1,996.32 (40) screens and single 3.5-inch drives, the CP/M Zilog, which produces the 280
a beh pitch high resolution colour VGA operating system and LocoScript. chip so familiar to PCW and the

Going under...

Prairieteck, the US company
which patented the 2.5-inch hard
disk, has been forced to lay off
300 staff and cease business.

Following the news of the
closure of Rodime, the company
which brought us the 3.5-inch
hard drive, (see Express 148), the
Prairietek news must come as a
blow to innovative companies
everywhere.

Intel error makes IBM suffer

Big Blue has had to withdraw
its 50MHz 80486 upgrade cards
for the PS/2 models 90 and 95
because Intel, which makes the
processor has discovered an
unspecified fault.

IBM and Intel have been
working closely together for 10
years now, but recently the once
close relationship has been seen
to have gained some distance.

The 486 upgrade has been
shipped since 12 August, but
according to Tara Sexton of IBM,
only “a limited number" have so
far got into the hands, and PS/2s,
of customers. Ms Sexton would
not actually confirm how many a
"limited number" was in the light

of the fact that IBM has sold thou-
sands of PS/2s.

In a statement which cov-
ered a reddening embarrassment
over IBM's normal ice-blue image,
the company claimed that the
withdrawal was merely: “a precau-
tionary measure until Intel can
determine the exact problem”.

Intel has already admitted
that it has had to cease produc-
tion of the 80486 due to the
discovery of a few “minor bugs". It
does however, expect to restart
production in the near future.

To see what UK company
Amstrad is doing with the 486's
older brothers, the 286 and 386,
turn to page 5.

Lotus is riding high

The chap on the bike is John
Madden, not the American
football coach of Sega Mega
Drive fame, of the Lotus
Freelance Graphics group. He is
cycling the length of the UK in
order to raise £50,000 in aid of
children with Cerebral Palsy. He
is expected to arrive at John
O'Groats on September 22.

The majority of the money,
which is being donated by
Computacenter and Lotus
Development, will go towards
assisting the Bobath Centre
which is one of the main centres
of research and treatment of
Cerebral Palsy.

The balance will go to
regional centres іп the UK. Ш

Z80A which is loved by Speccie
owners the world over, has
announced the launch of the
Z86C94 disk controller chip.

it comprises an 8-bit con-
troller and 16-bit digital signal
processor (DSP). Possible uses
for the chip include 2.5-inch disk,
tape drives, 1.8-inch disk, and
even voice/data control.

The core of the chip is the.
Z80, and the processor itself is
aimed at systems slightly faster
than the PCW of Speccie; 24MHz
is the targetted clock speed for
Zilog's new baby.

Shoot from the lip

“I think everybody gives credit to Go (computers), “Not yet.” “Probably not.”

but Go will be crushed.” А Commodore spokesman replying to questions

Apple-founding wonderkid Steve Jobs, now of about rumours of a Commodore games PC.

Next, talking about the pen-input specialists Go

Computers in a Fortune Magazine interview. ‘Also lurking around the (CES) show floor were
Codemaster's US operation; Camerica - a rather

"That's one of the nastiest comments I've ever odd firm which is promising to publish NES

heard.” games, while in the middle battle between

Microsoft's chief executive officer, Bill Gates

replying to jabbing Jobs in the same

“I still think that tens of millions of PC owners

interview.

Nintendo and Galoob over the Game Genie video
game enhancer"

Electronic Gaming Retail News.

What Codemasters are odd? And the Game Genie

needlessly use a computer that is far less good is a Video Game Enhancer?
than it should be"
Steve Jobs, with dander firmly up takes a swipe at Sheep more intelligent than best robot

Gates and Windows.

14 SEPTEMBER

A Guardian sub-headline.

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ica Systems has murdered the
price of this monitor, cutting it from
£650 to £299. A near infinity of
colours are also available to you |

Flicker knifed

PRODUCT: VGA Colour monitor |
NAME: Citizen ProCM14i multi-scan |
Compatibility: Most 16-bit machines

Silica Shop has slashed the price of its
colour Enhanced VGA monitor from £650 |
to £299.

The monitor is multi-scan and uses |
Sony's Trinitron tube which provides screen
resolutions of up to 1024x768 with a dot
pitch of .25mm. It also supports ‘flicker free
modes’.

It also works in three screen modes of
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768. It is only in |
the final mode that it runs flicker-free.

Finally, as a one of the major para- |
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infinite number of colours’.

Price: £299

Availability: — Now

Target users: PC, Amiga, ST

Contact: Silica Systems:
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Perceived competition: Philips, Hitachi

Lap it up

PRODUCT: 386SX laptop |
NAME: Compusys ALT-386SX
COMPATIBILTY: N/A

Not to be confused with the Amstrad ALT
range of computers, this new machine from
Compusys comes with a removeable hard |
drive. An upgrade to the ALT-286, the

The pen is mightier than the dot

PRODUCT: Ink-jet printer
NAME:

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A whole page full of quick guides to the latest hardware and software available

for a wide range of machines and applications. No frills, just facts...

| Facing the fax |

* Computing on the move takes on an
even more mobile complexion when you
can take your hard drive away from the
machine and bring it home with you

PRODUCT: Facsimile software
NAME: FaxNow!
COMPATIBILITY: Windows-based PCs |

| Faxing has now become second nature for

386SX has the following specifications: a |

20MHz processor, 32K of cache memory,
2Mb of RAM expandable to 5Mb, Windows
3.1 and the lastest version of MS-DOS
(version 5) already installed.

There is also a choice of removable
hard disk in either 40, 80 or 120Mb format.
The screen is a liquid crystal display.

Now the 386 processor is no longer
cutting edge now that the 80486 has hit the
market in bulk, the major advantage this
386SX has over its rivals is the option to
take a removeable hard disk. This offers

security, you can take it away with you and |

store it in a safe, and even the ability to
connect it to your desktop machine.

Price: £1,499

Availability: Now

Target users: Security conscious PC users
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Perceived competition: Laptops such as
the Toshiba T1000 series, or the Sharp
series. Although these do not come with
removable hard drives.

many business users and teleworkers. But
so far there has not been suitable software
for the Windows graphic user interface
(GUI) until now. This has left users who
want to use modems or fax cards with the
option of reverting to the DOS command
line interface (CLI), rather undermining the
point of spending cash on Windows.
FaxNow seeks to solve this problem
by interfacing with the WorldPort 2496
modem via Windows. The software enables
the user to multi-task, incorporate text and
graphics into faxes. The text and graphics
can be imported from standard programs
such as Word for Windows, Ventura Gold
and Excel. Users can also make use of
scanners to bring in digitised photographs.

* Faxing is now an integral part of
business life, and so is running Windows
оп the PC. Now the two facets join forces

| Contact:

Useful tools for heavy fax loads are
also included such as the ability to create
personalised cover sheets, along with the
inclusion of fax directories to expedite
mass faxing automatically.

Price: £703.82 (with the 2496
modem); £175.07 as an
upgrade if you already own
the modem

Availability: Now

Target users: PC Windows users.
Contact: Andest: 0908 263300
Perceived competition: At the moment no
other company provides Windows-based
fax software, but, it's possible to run fax
software from a Windows DOS session.

ROM release

PRODUCT: CD-ROM Drive

NAME: Hitachi CDR1750s
COMPATIBILITY: Apple Mac,
Acorn Archimedes, Workstation

Every week we seem to cover a new CD-
ROM drive. Although the releases are
merely a trickle they could well be turning
into a flood before the end of the year,
especially with more software publishers.
releasing the value inherent in 550-650Mb
of quick access data storage.

Hitachi's latest offering is claimed to
be the fastest yet. It is capable of access-
ing data at an incredible 320 milliseconds.
The unit comes with an airtight casing, dou-
ble doors and Hitachi's read lens cleaner.

It also comes fully SCSI equipped and
has a custom CD-Mac interface built-in.
The drive is not truly PC-compatible — you
have to buy an adaptor to use it. Software
drivers and cables are included. An audio-
package is included enabling standard
music CDs to be played via the device.
Price: £645
Availability: Now

Target users: Arc and Mac users who
require high speed access, mass storage.
Hitachi New Media:

081-849 2089

Perceived competition: Not even Hitachi's

Printapen
Compatibility: Any RS232 equipped computer

‘Small is still beautiful, especially if you're on the move. This
new printer has a startling feature - it is a hand-held and instead
of bringing paper to printer, you simply bring printer to paper.

What brings an added attraction to users of personal
organisers such as the Psion, or laptops with RS232 ports, or in
fact to anyone with an interest in gadgets, is the fact that the
printer is used like a pen. You run it over the paper to produce
the required image.

Ideally, this should be of immense help in terms of cheque
printing, cash payment slips and even library tickets! The
manufacturers have even equipped the printer with the ability to
print bar codes and other special characters.

The really outward bound types among you will also be
pleased to hear that the printer is shockproof, waterproof, and
resident to hydro-carbons such as methane.

-- -
* Don't look at the Psions, look at the devices

attached to the top bearing the legendary Datacap
label. It’s an ink-jet printer which works like a pen

Perceived competition: Nothing of this size or capability.

8 * NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • 14 SEPTEMBER 1991

other drives match this one's speed. W

* CD-ROM drives are multiplying
faster than their own ability to
access data and this new Hitachi
model is rated as the fastest in the
industry at the moment

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EARN UP

COVER DISK 2

Whether it’s games or applications you're interested in, they're all
here on this week's tri-format Cover Disk!

s promised, here is the sequel to last week's
A inaugural New Computer Express Cover Disk

For those of you out there who didn't get a copy
of last week's issue of New Computer Expre:
the only magazine in the world which comes
format Cover Disk. And not only that: we bring you one
every week.

Tri-format, as its name suggests, means we have
software for three different computer formats all on the
one disk. The computers supported are the most popu
lar of the 16-bit machines: the Amiga, Atari ST and PC.

The disk forma! If is unique; developed espe
lly for Express by Rob Northen Computing. This lets
us dedicate as much disk space as practically possible
to each of the three computers.

Each week the ratio of disk spi

d to each

machine will change, largely depending on what soft
ware is put on the disk. So, if you feel aggrieved that
your machine doesn't get a п one partic-
ular week, be patient; the next week it most likely will

QUALITY AND VARIETY
We try to bring у; va of quality software, com-
piled from the areas of public domain and shareware
demos of | games and applications, reader
ell as anything else that deserves to

jut on
Of course, although we decide what software is put
on the disk, we'd like to hear what you want on it, as
well as any other ideas, suggestions or criticisms you
may have. Send your feedback to: Cover Disk
Feedback, New Computer Express, 30 Monmouth
Street, Bath BA1 2BW.

BACKING UP

Because the Express Cover Disk is an unusual disk for-
mat, before you do anything with the software it's
essential that you make a back-up of the disk

Instructions on how to do this are provided on the
pages dedicated to each mac!

Be warned that these may be a bit tricky to carry
out, but this shouldn't stop you backing the disk up as it
really needs to be done.

Another important thing to remember is that you
must never save data directly to the Cover Disk itself
Apart from using a back-up all the time, you should

always keep the Cover Disk write protected (so the hole
ath the top right of the disk is showing), just in case you
do accidentally write to it, If the disk is written to, the
special file format will get corrupted and you may well
destroy all of the programs on the disk, including those
for your own machine.

PROBLEMS?

Each Cover Disk is tested to see if it works on as many
system configurations as possible, but because of the
complex nature of the disk format some problems may
arise, If they do then write in and tell us about them,
explaining what went wrong, the type of system and set-
up you have and if you have found a solution to it

This way, we can inform other readers of the prob-
lem (and, hopefully, a solution) in the next possible
issue of Express. And because we're a weekly maga-
zine, you'll all be informed of these much sooner than in
any other publication

Send your information to: Cover Disk Problems,
New Computer Express, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath
ВАТ 2BW.

EXPRESS DISCLAIMER
We have done our best to ensure that the programs on
the Express Cover Disk work well and are free of known
viruses. However, we do not accept liability for any con-
sequences that may arise from using the disk or the
programs on it

INTERESTED

MISSILE COMMAND

Experienced games players who have seen Terminator
2, the latest Schwarzenegger blockbuster, may have
recognised Missile Command, the classic arcade game,
being played in one of the movie's scenes.

Well, you can't accuse New Computer Express of
not being topical, because here's your very own version
of the game, courtesy of the Cover Disk.

And dont worry, we haven't included Missile
Command just because it's in the movie — it's a great
game in it's own right!

Bomb the Bass takes on a whole new meaning
in Missile Command, but the idea is to stop them
hitting the bases.

LOADING THE GAME
To load Missile Command turn your Amiga on, insert
the Cover Disk in your disk drive and wait for the
Workbench screen to come up.

When the disk icon appears (it's called Tri-Format),
double click on it with the mouse pointer. This opens up
a window with two folders — one of which is labelled
Missile Command. Double click on that folder, and
when the next window appears, double click on the.
Missile. Command icon. The game then loads.

To see the documentation, double click on the
Missile Command.doc icon in the same window.

HOW TO PLAY
When the game loads, press the mouse button to start the
game. Choose whether you want a one or two player

"Оой look, what are those green things in the
sky?'. They're not huge blobs of lime icecream
but rather your intercepting missiles.

AMIGA С

game when prompted, by pressing 1 or 2 on the keyboard.

As for how to play the game, to put no finer point
on it: blast the incoming laser rays to smithereens!

You have to stop the rays hitting the five cities you
have to protect. The only way of doing that is to explode
your missiles to intercept the incoming rays.

After the first couple of levels, an added problem
arises: bombs are also dropped. These too have to be
stopped from hitting the cities below by intercepting
them with your missiles. Like most games, the further
you get, the more frantic things become.

CONTROLS
All the action is controlled with the mouse. The mouse
moves the crosshead on the screen for you to target
your missiles, and pressing the left mouse button
launches them. ESC ends the game and, if pressed
again, quits the program. SPACE pauses the game.
The 'S' key turns the sound off and on
Missile Command can multi-task with other pro-
grams, but this depends on the amount of memory you
have and the type of programs you are running.

CONCENTRATION

The powers of memory — and we're not talking bits and
bytes here — are so great that no-one can comprehend just
how great they are, We need to develop these brain powers
at an early age and one way of doing that could be with this
Ше number: Concentration. f you know about the card
game that is called Match Pairs, among other things, then
the idea behind Concentration should be familiar to you.

LOADING THEGAME
To load Concentration tum your Amiga on, insert the
Cover Disk in your disk drive and wait for the Workbench
screen to come up.

When the disk icon appears (it's called Tri-Format),
double click on it with the mouse pointer. This will open
up a window with the Concentration icon displayed within
it. Double click on that icon, and the game will then load

HOW TO PLAY

When Concentration first loads, a page of instructions

14 SEPTEMBER 1991

DISK INFORMATION

PROGRAM: Missile Command
DESCRIPTION: Game
DIRECTORY: Missile Command
FILE (S): Missile Command,

Missile Command.doc

PROGRAM: Concentration II
DESCRIPTION: Game ~
DIRECTORY: -

FILE (S): Concentration

Can you guess what the hidden word is? If not,
just match up a couple more tiles to reveal
some more of the word

appears explaining how to play the game. Clicking on
the left mouse button starts the game. As the page of
instructions explains, the object of Concentration is to
guess a hidden five letter word. Each time you find
Matching pictures, two pieces of the word will be
revealed. You can guess the hidden word at any stage
during the game, but unless you're psychic, you'll have
to clear a few of the tiles first.

In terms of educational value, the game has sev-
eral notable features. Most obvious is the way the
program entices you to exercise your brain cells, but
another significant feature is the way it helps to develop
a recognition of the alphabet as letters are gradually
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In low resolution Kaosdesk is usable but
changing the screen to medium resolution makes
everything even clearer

One of the problems of the Atari ST TOS desktop is that
it is, frankly, ugly. The icons are very ‘square’ in shape,
the colour of the desktop is a putrid green, and when
the desktop is used, it moves sluggishly.

Commercial desktop replacements such as
Neodesk and Harlekin have gone a long way to improv-
ing the appearance and functionality of the Atari ST
desktop, but at a price — costing at least £19.95.

Now though, on your very own Cover Disk, is a bril-
liant replacement desktop called Kaosdesk that
incorporates many of the good features of not only the
alternative ST desktops, but also the operating systems
of other machines like the Macintosh and the Amiga.

GET LOADING
Insert the Cover Disk into your disk drive. Open the ST
folder by double-clicking on the icon labelled ST, and
then double-click on the KAOSDESK icon to open the
program's folder. It is a good idea to change to medium

resolution as this will make the text easier to read. To |

do this go to the Options menu on the standard ST
desktop, and choose medium resolution from the Set
Preferences option, Then you just have to double-click
on the KAOSDESK.PRG icon to run the program.

To see the documentation for Kaosdesk, double
click on the KAOSDESK.TXT icon. When the ST dis-
plays a requester saying that KAOSDESKTXT is a
document file, click on SHOW and the document will
appear on-screen. There are also a lot of other folders
and files within the main KAOSDESK folder, all of which
perform functions in the program. These include:

€ AUTO (folder) - SHELMAN.PRG.

е ICON (folder) — includes ICNEDIT.PRG,
ICNEDIT.RSC, MKICONS.TOS,

Papierk

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| The Icon Editor, called ICNEDIT.PRG, enables

the redefining of icons on the Kaosdesk desktop.

© The ICON folder also contains a large number of |

alternative icons for Kaosdesk to use. See the docu-
mentation for how to use these icons on the desktop.

FABULOUS FEATURES

| Once loaded, Kaosdesk behaves just like the basic ST

desktop, but with its additional functions of course. It's
functions are achievable by using the mouse and key-
board as normal. There is a large document file called
KAOSDESK.TXT included on the disk which gives com-
prehensive instructions on how to use the program.

FRACTAL LANDSCAPE

| Fractals are a branch of mathematics which attempt to

recreate realistic landscapes and the general principles
of nature. This is usually in a graphics form, as is the

| case here, but it can also be used to generate music,

for example. This may be a daunting prospect, but with
Fractal Landscape, you can create your own fractal

| images quickly and easily, and even save the images to

use in a graphics package or your own programs,

HOW TO LOAD
Insert the Cover Disk into your disk drive. Open the ST
folder by double-clicking on the icon labelled ST, and
then double-click on the FRACTAL icon to open the pro-

gram's folder. From you just have to double-clicking on |

the FRACGEN.PRG icon to run the program.
USING THE PROGRAM

When Fractal Landscape loads, it immediately starts to

| draw a fractal landscape. All you'll see on the screen for

NAMES.TXT, |

are a number of dots that gradually spread across the
screen. Once this finishes a wonderfully realistic land-
scape is displayed on the screen. Press space to
change between the menu and the graphics screen.
On the options screen you can:

F1 - Create a new landscape - The program asks you
for an ‘f value (which defines the ‘ruggedness’ of the
landscape) and a seed (which can identify the land-
scape) – try landscape 12345 with an + value of 0.8.

F2 - Set viewpoint – Enables you to define your view

position in the 3D universe and the viewing direction. |

Realistic landscapes like these are easily
achievable with Fractal Landscape

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:

CHECKLIST:

Enter the x,y,z co-ordinates and then the x,y,z co-ordi-
nates of the point on which you would like the screen to
be centred. The surface lies within the limits -320 and
320 in the x and y directions.

ЕЗ - Set light position - Defines the x,y,z co-ordinates
of the single light source.

F4 – Define sea level (and snow level in lo-res) – sea
level and snow line heights can be set to any level.

F5 - Save screen (Degas) - saves the landscape as a
standard, uncompressed Degas file.

F6 - Set detail of plot – The detail factor is between 0
and 6 which gives a variety of surface resolutions: 0 =
2x2 facets; 1 = 4x4; 2 = 8x8; 3 = 16x16; 4 = 32x 32; 5 =
64x64; 6 = 128x128.

F7 - Landscape information - on landscape and view.
F10 - Quit - Exit the program.

Fractal Landscape was programmed by Jonathan
Millar. The complete source of the program is available
by sending £5 to: Jonathan Millar, St Catherine's
College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ.

ST BACK-UP COPY

1 Format at least one blank disk.

Write protect the original Express Cover Disk (with
the notch open so you can see the hole through
the disk) and insert it into the drive. If you've got two
drives, insert the Cover Disk into drive B. Double click
on the drive B icon to open a window showing the
contents of the Cover Disk. If you've only got a single
drive a message appears asking you to put disk B in
drive A. Just click on OK
Insert one of the blank formatted disks into drive A
(removing the Cover Disk if you only have one
drive). Double click on the drive A icon and open up
another window. You may be asked to insert disk A in
drive A - you already have, so just click on OK.
Highlight each folder in the drive B Cover Disk
window and drag them all into the drive A window,
one at a time.
If you only have one drive, you're asked to insert
disk A and disk B at regular intervals. Be careful
not to mix the two disks up!

| FANCY CONTRIBUTING? THEN FILL IN THIS FORM

README.DOC file included on disk
7 Printout of README.DOC (if possible)
Disk is labelled with my name, address, phone number

1 Disk is certified virus free |
l COMPUTER: Amiga Atari ST PC The name of the program is:

жыш DECLARATION:This program is submitted for publication by New Computer Express. Ihave
1 szeor rues): |__| k totally written it myself, and I agree to indemnify Future Publishing against any legal action |
1 that may arise due to copyright problems.
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1 бате Art program SIGNED: |

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COMMANDER KEEN

If you thought Captain Comic on last week's disk was a
great game, then take a look at this one! Commander
Keen is widely regarded as one of the best ever share-
ware games for the PC, because of its colourful
graphics, quality presentation, and, more importantly,
brilliant playability.

This is the first game in the Commander Keen tril-

ogy: Marooned on Mars. The other two games in the |
series, The Earth Explodes and Keen Must Diel, are not |

shareware, however.

The story goes like this: Billy Blaze, an eight-year
old genius has created an interstellar starship from old
Soup cans, rubber, cement, and plastic tubing. While his
folks are out on the town and his babysitter has fallen
asleep, Billy goes into his backyard workshop, dons his
brother's football helmet and transforms into
Commander Keen, defender of Earth!

In this game, aliens from the planet Vorticon VI find
out about the eight-year-old and plan his destruction.
While Keen is out exploring the mountains of Mars, the
Vorticons steal vital parts of his ship and take them to
distant Martian cities. Can Keen recover all the pieces
of his ship and repel the Vorticon invasion? Will he
make it back before his parents get home?

LOADING THE GAME
Go to the KEEN directory on the Cover Disk (it's within

the PC directory) and copy KEEN.EXE to a blank for- |

matted disk or a directory on your hard drive.

HARD DRIVE INSTRUCTIONS
To make a directory on your hard drive, enter СА and
then type MKDIR KEEN or MD KEEN This will create a
directory called KEEN.

Now, go back to the A:\ drive and copy KEEN.EXE
across to the hard drive by typing: CD A:\PC\KEEN,
then COPY КЕЕМ.ЕХЕ C:\KEEN\.

FLOPPY DISK INSTRUCTIONS

To copy it to another floppy disk, insert the Cover Disk
and go to the AA drive (type A:\). To copy the file, enter

CD PC\KEEN and then type XCOPY AAKEEN.EXE B3. |
The computer will ask you to swap disks once, and the |

file will be copied.

KEEN.EXE is a self-extracting archive. This means
that when you run it, it will decompact itself into a num-
ber of files. These will take up much more space than

the original file did, which is why it had to be compacted |

itto fit on the disk, and is also the reason why you have |

to copy it to its own disk.

Once the program is unarchived, type KEEN1.EXE |

to run the game.

DISK INFORMATION

PROGRAM: Daily Diary
DIRECTORY: DIARY
FILE(S): DD121.COM

PROGRAM: Commander Keen
DIRECTORY: KEEN
FILE(S): KEEN.EXE

Type GO.BAT to see the contents of the
disk.
NOTE: MS-DOS must be loaded on your
system before you use the Cover Disk.
Commander Keen requires a PC, XT
or AT compatible machine equipped
with an EGA display adapter and at
least 520K of free RAM.

CONTROLS
Commander Keen can be controlled either by a joystick
or the keyboard. The keyboard controls are as follows:
Arrow keys - move Commander Keen around
CTRL - Jump
ALT - Use pogo/stop pogo (if you have one)
CTRL & ALT - Fire ray gun
ЕЗ - Re-define keys
SPACE - Status screen
F1 - Help F2 - Sound on/off
F3 - Keyboard mode F4 - Joystick mode
F5 - Save game ESC - Quit
Joystick controls: Button 1 to jump, Button 2 to use
pogo (if you have one). Press both to fire the ray gun.

HOW TO PLAY
When Commander Keen first loads, you are presented
with an options screen which gives you a choice of:
New Game - start a new game
Continue Game - continue a saved game
Story - sets the scene for the game
About ID - information about the programmers
High Scores - no explanation needed
Ordering info — how to order parts 2 and 3 of the trilogy.
Previews - displays two screens from ithe game
Restart demo - no explanation needed

SHAREWARE REGISTRATION

Commander Keen is a shareware program. So, if you |

like this program and find you play it a lot, you're obliged
to send the author of the program a contribution – in this
case US$15 (£9) – to thank them for their troubles and
to enable them to program more quality creations.

The other two games in the Commander Keen tril- |

ogy — The Earth Explodes and Keen Must Die! - are
available for $15 (£9) each. You can buy all three for
$30 (£18) which will get you a special hints and tricks
sheet, the cheat mode password, the latest version of
each game as well as several free bonus games.

Write to: Apogee Software, PO Box 476389,
Garland, TX 75047, USA.

DAILY DIARY

If need be, you can keep track of your
appointments for every hour of every day with
Daily Diary

Do you have problems keeping track of what you're
doing today (or next week, next month) ? Daily Diary
helps you get organised by keeping track of all your
appointments and events.

TO START THE PROGRAM
Go to the DIARY directory (#5 within the PC directory)

These screens from Commander Keen demonstrate some of the obstacles that have to be passed

|

оп the Cover Disk and copy DD121.COM to а blank for- |

matted disk or a directory on your hard drive.

14 SEPTEMBER 1991 • NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • 13

HARD DRIVE INSTRUCTIONS
To make a directory on your hard drive, enter C:\ and
then type MKDIR DIARY or MD DIARY. This will create
а directory called DIARY.

Now, go back to the AA drive and copy
DD121.COM across to the hard drive by typing: CD
АЛРС\ОЈААҮ, then COPY DD121.COM C:\DIARY\,

FLOPPY DISK INSTRUCTIONS
To copy it to another floppy disk, insert the Cover Disk
and go to the A:\ drive (type A:\). To copy the file, enter
CD PC\DIARY\ and then type XCOPY DD121.COM ВА.
The computer will ask you to swap disks, and the file
will be copied.

DD121.COM is a self-extracting archive. This
means that when you run it, it will decompact itself into
a number of files. These will take up more space than
the original file did, which is why it had to be compacted
it to fit on the disk, and is also the reason why you have
to copy it to its own disk. Once you have copied the pro-
gram, type DD.COM and the program loads.

GET ORGANISED
Daily Diary is, as its name suggests, a diary program.
However, it also doubles as a combined schedule and
organiser program. All of Daily Diary's functions are
accessible by using keys which perform as follows:
F1 - Help F2 - Scan
Cursor left/right - Change between months
Cursor up/down - Change between years
PgUp/PgDn - Change between days
RETURN - Enter diary
ESC - Exit from the program
CTRL & F1 - Switch back to DOS while still keeping
Daily Diary in memory. When in DOS, type EXIT to
return to Daily Diary.

REGISTRATION
Users of Daily Diary should register by writing to:
Pseudonym Software, 161 8. Sunnyslope Ave,
Pasadena, CA 91107. See the main file DD.COM for
details.

Be warned that because the disk is a complicated
format, some of these instructions could be a bit tricky.

If you've only got a floppy drive-based system,

format at least one blank disk. Otherwise use your
hard drive.

Write protect the original Express Cover Disk (with

the notch open so you can see the hole through
the disk).

Use the XCOPY command to make the backup. If

you have only one floppy drive, load XCOPY from
the system disk from drive A: with the /S option to
copy the files across. So, to copy the files across type:
XCOPY A:\PC\’." В: /S.Then it is just a matter of
‘swapping disks in and out of the drive until the Cover
Disk is copied. Don't worry if you think you must have
two drives - the XCOPY command will treat your single
drive as both, or it will copy to the B:\ drive if, in fact,
you do have two drives.

If you have a hard drive, put the Cover Disk in drive

A, then type: XCOPY A:\PC\*.* C: /S to copy all the
subdirectories to the hard drive.

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

* On the Electronic Theatre side of VR, Symbolics
has created Arturo - a harlequin who pines after
his other half, the lovely Lotta Desire

working out on a VR bike journey, walking around

a VR house via a treadmill, feeling the wind and
dust particles around a NASA spaceship? Or maybe
interaction is for you. Play electronic table tennis with
4,000 other people at the same time, or how about
some multimedia theatre watching live actors cavorting
‘on stage with 3D computer animations?

If this sounds like fun to you, a week at Siggraph —
the world's leading computer graphics conference and
exhibition held in the US each year — is what you need.
But before you start thinking it's just one big Digital
Disneyland, Siggraph also acts as a serious launchpad
for new products and runs important technical panels.
You see computer scientists rushing around with the
latest algorithms (which we'll see on our computers in
about three years time), film directors eager to lure
audiences with the latest special effects, men from
defence establishments putting on friendly faces but
deadly serious underneath, and ashen-faced animators
who have spent 24 hours a day for the last year to get a
piece in the Electronic Theatre.

Н ом'ѕ about riding а virtual reality surfboard,

IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
The jewel in Siggraph's crown was the interactive
gallery, called Tomorrow's Realities Today. The title is
apt. We've heard so much about VR, but in the UK at
least, it has so far delivered more vapourware than
substance. But here was something different. Big
companies such as Boeing and Northrop and institutions
such as NASA and the University of North Carolina
demonstrating VR systems with practical uses.

It was obvious, too, that our perception of VR is
based too much in the external paraphenalia — goggles
and gloves. VR has burst out of the eggshell and into
early adolescence. Now there are various types of
interaction — passive, passive/interactive, interactive
branching and full interactive; now participation can be
individual, or in small or large groups. Now besides
body, hand, head and eye sensors we have voice
recognition, skin conductive response, respiration, blood
pressure and EEG feedback devices.

Now we have transducers which can transform
ultrasound, electromagnetic fields, atomic particles,
radioactivity, X-rays, ultra-violet, radio, intra-red and
microwaves into data for a VR experience. Outputs to

/ reached for jf /

* Using the authoring software Mandala, paint
packages can be made interactive - this image
has been created on an Amiga

Virtual Reality
has burst
out of the

eggshell and
into early
adolescence

sg

Is your imagination strong enough to perceive how far computer graphics
can really go? Watch out — you're in for a shock! Let lan Grant take you
on the journey of your dreams and bring the future forward, fast!

participants include visual — vector/raster LCD monitors
or projectors, head-mounted stereoscopic or direct write
to retina, and auditory — 2D static, 3D static or 3D
dynamic, along with tactile force feedback, vibration,
motion wind and temperature. And on a macro scale, the
immersive experience that gloves and goggles provide is
only one of several VR experiences.

LIFE ON A SLICE
Of equal importance is the desktop where viewers look
at 3D world through a portal, steering through worlds,
and the third person metaphor where users view images
of themselves interacting with virtual environments.

Life on a Slice is one such piece. The user's image,
which is captured via video camera, interacts on-screen
with a virtual image. When the user's image touches an
icon it triggers. With each choice of icon a line is added

* Chromosones like you've never seen them

before! These ones are under going cell di
and the image was created on a Vax mainframe

14 *NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • 14 SEPTEMBER 1991

to a digital poem. The idea is developed in Geisha Snall
and Phospate Samurai — narratives in which the user
goes on a journey and there are many potential endings.
Author Beverley Reiser wants the computer to explore
poetic and narrative structures. She uses Mandala
software on the Amiga 2000, a live digitiser, 4-track
Tascam PortaStudio with Yamaha digital sequencer,
Roland keyboard and Yamaha electric piano. It's weird.

TRAM TRAVEL

Moviemap of Karlsruhe allows you to travel at any speed
on the German city's tram lines — backward or forward.
You are ten foot away from a big screen and have a
broomstick lever to control speed and foot controls for
direction. How did they do it? The 100 km of track was
filmed by 16mm at 2, 4, 6 and 6 metres per frame,
assuring seamless match cuts. A Mac |l using
HyperCard controls a large projected video image from a
Pioneer 8000 videodisc player with a built-in frame buffer
eliminating blanking during searches.

The Mandala VR system is an important ‘third
person' system and has been widely used — to date for
business presentations, teleconferencing, physio-
therapy, medical rehabilitation, handicapped empower-
ment, training, trade shows, billboards, amusement
parks and TV production.

Mandala is easy to use authoring software. Paint
packages can be made interactive by event types, for
example, giving a ball bounce or sounds. The users
image is digitised at up to 30 frames per second and
displayed on their own bitplane on the screen. The
software monitors the data frame by frame to interact
with animations in other planes. Through contact tech-

niques, animations are transformed to different states
and simultaneously trigger off events. At Siggraph they
used a system where users navigate through virtual
corridors to rooms where they participate in training.
They use an Amiga 500, real time video digitiser, video
display, camera, genlock and MIDI synthesiser.

Imagine painting directly on the screen without a
mouse. Well it isn't a dream anymore thanks to Myron
Kreuger and VideoPlace and Videodesk. It consists of a
terminal, light table and camera. The image of the users
hands is superimposed over the application on the
Computer. Processors analyse the hands' image and it
is used to duplicate mouse functions. You start drawing
with up to ten fingers and make several commands
simultaneously — mouse manufacturers, please note.

For 3D graphics try the University of North
Carolina's 3dm, a 3D VR modelling system. This is for
two users with gloves and goggles. A toolbox full of

icons with audio assists floats near the user and is |

accessed by a 6DF mouse (it has another three
dimensions when you pick it up). On entry to virtual
worlds, users see a cursor, toolbox, magic carpet and
checkerboard floor. The carpet represents the extent of
the tracking area. So you start constructing models in
3D with the tools and can move them interactively.

The University of North Carolina's VR applications
merit a book and have to be seen to be believed. At
Siggraph they showed a radiation therapy treatment
planning system where you direct cancer killing beams
into a digitised patient's body, a system where you fly in
and out of atoms and molecules, an architectural

walkthrough with a special ceiling and head display |

cameras which trigger infra-red beams and tell the
computer where you are in the room and a VR based
exercise bike — the simulation adjusts the pedaling
resistance according to the terrain.

NOW FOR THE THEATRICS
Enough of VR and hypermedia what about the
Electronic Theatre. There's a buzz — after all #5 not
every evening you try and get into The Guiness Book of
Records. In a world first they are attempting to institute
an immediate feedback system. But what are those
plastic lollipops on the seats? It turns out that they're
made of the most reflective material commercially
available — Reflexite. One side is red, the other green.
As the audience waggles its sticks, at the back of the
hall CCD Video cameras pick up the red and green light
and feed it into a PC 486 with VBista and Vision boards,
process the data in real time and project it on to the
cinema screen. It looks like a computer screen — lots of
red and green pixels in rows. You can even find out
which is your pixel by a little experimentation.

But red and green can mean something else. The
audience is divided into left and right and up comes
interactive electronic table tennis. Red is up, green is
down and the puck starts flying accompanied by oohs
and ahhhs. When the 400 or so audience becomes
bored, it's on to the interactive flight simulator — same
principle, different results, with some wanting to crash
the plane and others to keep it airborne.

Enough of instant interaction and on to multimedia
theatre. George Coates Performance Works, is a
multimedia ensemble which puts on presentations
incorporating live actors and music, back projected
slides, 16mm film projection and direct stereoscopic
computer projection. The audience wears 3D
Stereoscopic glasses and sees astounding 3D sets,
projected from the 3D computer database. They change
frequently from ancient Greek to Twenty First Century.

It's all achieved by a special radical tilt screen, |

which looks like a flat surface but actually contains
space. Lighting techniques focus on the actors, but it
doesn't interfere with the projected data. The story is
about some players connecting their spinal cords to a
multimedia database and how they interact with each
other and the data around them. The most memorable
Scene is an actor dancing with a wire frame model from
the latest Mac animation package, Kinetic Effects.

The 3D glasses came in useful for the film show |

where they had to be worn for five pieces. One Journey
into the 4th Dimension, comes from a theme park ride in
Japan where there are motion seats, holographic
sounds, wind and smells. Although without these, being

+ A Mac lif and a Cray YMB were used to
produce this image called ‘Atonal filing’

taken into farthest space and under the sea with a
camera's eye view of narrow escapes made you dizzy
enough without wobbling seats or puking down
someone's back to worry about.

ON ANOTHER THEME

But besides immersion in 3D data, what were other
themes? Dirty, cruddy images have become trendy.
After all, computer images have traditionally been bright
shiny and pristine. Now via special algorithms your com-
| puter graphics can be dirty. Turning one object seam-
| lessly into another is also catching on. It's achieved with
| a Public Domain algorithm and called morphing
| (remember Willow where the turtle becomes a tiger).

Imagine painting |
directly on the
screen without a
mouse. Well it isn’t
| a dream any more

At Siggraph the same effect is seen in several
| pieces including an advertisement for Chrysler Cars to
| the latest effect in Terminator Il, where an organic metal
blob turns into Arnold Schwarzenegger, and back again. |
Apparently so much money was spent on the effects
that they're not saying how it was done, but one inspired
guess was that they filmed melting soap and digitised
| the live action. Special shaders matched the live action
lighting. The effects are shudderingly realistic.

Computer graphic faces are doing things they |
haven't done before. Metal ones turn to water, beautiful
ones turn ugly in seconds. The search for photorealism
is as strong as ever. Objects are more realistic. After all
they shouldn't detract from the narrative.

COMPANIES JOIN IN |
Consuming vast amounts of computer power, |
companies such as Hewlett Packard showed how they |
could simulate coloured light — at the Ronchamp
Chapel. IBM showed how it could realistically simulate

* BIB 200 atrium - 200 points light sources and
41,000 polygons modelled by Citia and rendered
| with Reals raytracing software

14 SEPTEMBER 1991 • NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • 15

falling leaves, Apple, how it could create swirls. Karl
Sims showed a new way of making pictures by
interactively evolving equations. Two companies used
sound mapping to tell a tale of frustration, another in an
advertisement for sweets. As an animated tube careers
across a piano, the right hand movements of the pianist
were converted from MIDI to drive the animated
keyboard. And importantly, knowledge ‘lost to mankind’
was brought to life in sensitively treated high definition
television in two pieces; one created from architectural
data on Abusimbel, the other natural history data on
prehistoric animals.

And you don't have to have the latest kit to make it
into the world's best computer film show. James
Duesing used a PC running Cubicomp to tell a narrative
about 21st century citizens visiting polluted sites to
reminisce about their heritage.

And you don't need to spend a fortune on big

| systems either. Eku Wand transformed the poems of

Ernst Jandi via a talking screen divided into a grid of 20
pairs of lips speaking at irregular times using an Amiga
2000, DeLuxe Paint II and a digitiser. It's effective. And
a note for budding animators. Although Pixar's entry
was a cut down version of Luxo Jnr, illustrating via ‘big
lamp’ and ‘little lamp’ the difference between light and
heavy balls, the timing was perfect, the narrative simple,
and despite all the MIPS and Megaflops of previous
pieces, still managed to raise the biggest cheer.

SUPERCOMPUTERS ONLY?
But isn't all this a bit esoteric? Something for the realms
of the supercomputer boys and girls, or at least those
with a Silicon Graphic Power Series workstation — not
for the likes of you and me running XTs and Pluses?
No. Computer power virtually doubles every 18 months
and software inevitably becomes more sophisticated.

On the Siggraph exhibition floor the trend was.
obvious — the latest Silicon Graphics machine was
calling itself a PC — the Indigo, going for $6,500. It runs

| much of the software — from Alias, Soft Image, TDI and

Wavefront that went into creating many of the above.
Although when you get it home, don't be surprised it's
only an 8-bit screen and hasn't got a hard disk.

Other hot products — most new workstations had
graphics and processing systems coupled tighter
together and most had live video windows. The facility
was shown off in a live videoconferencing demo from
DEC, RasterOps and Brooktree via three video cameras
perched on workstations — with results displayed real
lime in windows.

Hyperspeed is a board giving 64-bit and personal
supercomputer on the PC. Tektronix’ new Phaser III Pxi
thermal wax printers can output on to plain paper.
Autodesk released a Pro version of Animator — the
resolution has improved and anti-aliasing is included.

| Sun and IBM demonstrated head trackers, showing VR

is serious business — the latter also showed stereo
glasses to access 3D models, as did ModaCad. Apple's
QuickTime stood out as an important breakthrough —
further narrowing the gap between TV and print and
possibly heralding a desktop video revolution much like
DTP in the eighties. They had some good interactive
multimedia newpaper demos. Windows got its first 3D
product in Upfront from Alias, an example of
sophisticated UNIX software migrating down.

ON THE SMALL SIDE
And what about VR on smaller computers? VPL is
making VR peripherals for micros. Autodesk is making
noises about a big launch for PCs and with a substantial
user base it could take off fast, Sense 8 has World
ToolKit software which runs on a PC. Virtus has a good
VR through the portal system which runs on a Mac. And

| compression technology is coming on leaps and bounds

making video editing and playback from disks, and
therefore multimedia, (now coined unimedia) a reality.
So why is it that when you visit a corporate site, m
there's row upon row of grey/brown terminals emanating
green ASCI text when users could have so much more
fun, connectivity, interactivity-and colour in their work?
That, surely, is the task of the computer graphics

| fraternity in the next few years, besides making pretty

Pictures we say wow to for two seconds, until next year
come round again. W

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hy bother to painstakingly re-type documents
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The Fish collection of PD disks is regarded as the

premier Amiga PD library with many big name
programmers contributing their wares to Fred's library.

| 480 disks within the library, although this is by no
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Some are of commercial quality — Timm Martin's SID,
for example. Several versions of the same program may
be held on the CD-ROM, so it's worth checking with the

14 SEPTEMBER 1991 ° NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS *17

f you're the proud owner of either a Xetec CD-ROM |
then |

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can fit up to 15 oe ST at once. You write in the
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patterns and ten complete songs.

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The process is as simple to carry out as it is to read
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to give you trouble, and even they can be fixed. e

Unlike many business-orientated programs, Syntex
does not require massive amounts of memory. You can
produce perfect results on all STs and TTs, using
monochrome and colour displays. @

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AGAINST
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*Your graphs need no longer look dull with
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graphics in one picture

fter word processors, spreadsheets are arguably

the second most popular pieces of software. The

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the edge.

All in all it is the most easy to use featured packed
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Objects and text frames can be rotated in one
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| can't — something which really should be remedied
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can be flown around the edges of any object created in
esktop Video on the Amiga is rapidly becoming
big business, with both US and UK companies
producing peripherals which put the Amiga in line
with video kit costing tens of thousands of pounds.

The heart of the Amiga desktop video system is the
genlock, a sophisticated device that combines the video
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source. One of the most powerful genlocks available is
the recently released Video Centre Plus (also known as
the VC2), an upgraded version of G2 Systems’
successful VideoCentre (VC1).

The VC2 is capable of coding, genlocking and
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long console that sits on your desk next to your Amiga.
Externally it has two faders (one for cross fading and
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to set the signal type (Just Amiga, Just video,
combination) and a set of wipe controls which are
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S-VHS video decks and camcorders. It consists of a |

the program — circles, curved lines, polygons and so on.

Essentially, Avagio is a lowish-end DTP package
which attempts — and sometimes succeeds - to perform
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tool, which allows you to define how overlapping objects
interact - whether things should be transparent, opaque
and so on. If you want a relatively cheap DTP package,
this one is worth a look. Ш

HOW DOES т ВАТЕ?

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Y Doesn't run under Windows

COST: £142.94, Upgrade from version
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COMPETITION: Numerous - DTP
packages abound for the PC

rectangles and diagonals.

Unlike most genlocks, the VC2 allows: you to
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with the external video source). Most genlocks just use
Amiga colour 0, but the VC2 allows you to change this
via a set of dip switches on the back of the unit.

The VC2 is a powerful and very capable gen-
locking system that, whilst it cannot produce broadcast
quality (you'll need G2's VC3 for this), it is suitable for
most semi-professional video applications. li.

IS IT WORTH BUYING?

А Supports S-VHS as standard — —
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EXPRESS MAIL

This week Haydn homes in on your views on X-rated PD, CDTV versus CD-ROM - the price battle, a
cracking idea for program protection and how the 8-bits beat the 16-bits at graphics demos

roy CDTV puzzle

I noticed something а while ago
which hasn't seemed to be picked
up by anybody else.

The Commodore СОТУ costs
£599. A keyboard and disk drive.
will be optional items, therefore
adding to the costs.

1 see reported in your great
mag (which | read every week) that
the A690 CD-ROM drive for the
A500 will cost £299.

If you add to this the cost of a
new A500 (£350 approx) and a half
Meg board (under £30), it will total
about £680.

This will only be £80 more
than the CDTV, but you will benefit
with the inclusion of a keyboard a
disk drive. | know which one |
would choose.

1 get the feeling that the A690
will cost slightly more than this or
that it will be delayed long enough
for the СОТУ to get a proper
foothold in the market.

What do you reckon?

Mike Tumer, Edmonton, London

| RECKON you could be right there
Mike, but have you considered this?
What better way is there to ensure the
‘success of CDTV than bringing out an
Amiga add-on as soon as possible so
that user demand for software
Mushrooms, more software titles are
made available by profit-conscious

m.

WANTED!

developers and, as such, CDTV is more
appealing to the high street shopper —
the punter for whom it is intended. |
Meanwhile, | know which I'd rather have |
too - an A690 drive. Can't wait –
hopefully it won't be tto long.

I just hope Commodore can deliver
at the quoted price because it seems to
me that interactive CD of some sort is
the way forward and £299 looks like an
attractive price.

A Porn again

Thanks for publishing extracts
from my last letter about PD and
pornography.

This weeks issue of NCE (iss
147) has a letter from a Stuart
Woodhead who believes that we at
LAPD.are hypocrits. He bases his
comments on the fact that my
letter, as published, condemns PD
libraries which distribute porn,
whilst we have an X-Rated section
in our catalogue.

My original letter to you
clearly stated that we did not
consider ourselves to be angels of
any kind and | mentioned our X-
Rated section quite openly, the
necessary editing of mail that you
must do before printing letters
meant that all my references to our
X-section were not mentioned,
thus leading people like Woodhead
to believe we have double

O Slightly worse © Much worse!

6. Rate out of ten this and any other
computer magazines you read
regularly:

act Sg Beri gL

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7. Out of ten, how useful did you find
this week's main feature?

DIET 5.

standards.

Would it be possible for you
to print something which makes it
clear that | did not hide the fact of
the existence of our X-section and
also makes it clear the difference
between a selection of software
that would not be suitable for the
younger user and pornography?

If using the Obscene
Publications Act as a guide it is
Clear that the software within our
X-section would not contravene
апу section of that act, whereas
many of the programs within the X
-sections of less reputable libraries
would lead to charges being laid if
only the relevant police forces
were aware of their availability.

Leigh Caudwell. (А.Р. |

‘BREASTS AND BOTTOMS’, as
‘Medium’ Jules Tolley, our resident chief-
sub, informs me, are OK as long as you
don't get obsessive about them. What
she means by this, among other things,
is that they are not sufficient reason to

| buy the Sun everyday.

Whether anyone will now send off
money to your PD library knowing it has
a X-rated section would appear to fall
into the same category. Unfortunately, |
bet you get loads of requests.

Sorry, but | think ‘X-rated’ pics are
all pretty cheap really — especially
digitised ones - but then I'm married to
the most beautiful woman in the world
and therefore fully entitled to be
completely obsessed, blind to frustration
and oblivious to the need for Page 3.

And | least like ..

* Leave blank if you wish — but
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Future Publishing, Bath,

we may

Saleen

1 was intrigued by the letter from R
Kilpatrick of Kelso (NCE 146) in his
description of, and delight with,
his Atari 800XL.

My letter recently made the
same comments and likewise was
disbelieved and also shot down.

Perhaps the answer is that the
16-bits are not yet fully exploited
and the Atari 8-bits have been
pushed far beyond the limits set
for them, during the past year or
so. But there is no doubt that
nobody anywhere on any 16-bit
machine can show me demos or
screens to match the ones now
being produced on the Atari 8-bits.

However, | would advise
Richard that the Atari 130XE with
Из 128K is even better, with some
of the page flipping demos, that
use all the extra memory banks.

1 do not decry any 16-bit
owner, nor any 16-bit machine, but
as | said in my recent letter, why
buy a 16-bit simply because it's
bigger and faster?

Ron James.Ribbleton, Preston.

PRESUMABLY because it has a better
and larger software base. l'm still not
convinced about the demos, though. But
since we don't have any XLs here — how
about sending me a video of what you're
talking about? | promise to return it. Who
knows 1 might actually review itl

pra poma

Regarding the new forms of copy
protection; | believe that | have
thought of a new and original
method, although it could quite
possibly have been thought up.
before and may be in use.

My method involves the
program detecting whether the
disk which the program is on is an
original or a copy.

If the disk is an original then
the program on it runs as normal,
whereas if the disk is a copy then
the program would go into demo
mode. Or maybe, options in menus
could be made inaccessible,
disabling the save option,
perhaps, so that no data entered
Into a copied program could ever
be used again once the computer
had been turned off.

The same method could be
applied to games, stopping the
player from going further than a

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This week the leather couch creaks
under the weight of BILL STEELE of
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK as our resident
psychiatrist, Dr Clare Anthony, invites
him to explore the inner realms of his
psyche. АН Bill had to to do was send in
the name of the machine he owned, his
favourite software and name the machine
һе most desired. He then put them all in
ап air-mail envelope and sent them to
Leather Couch Clare, NCE, 30 Monmouth
Street, Bath ВАТ 2BW. Just think, you,
yes YOU, could be next!

ОК Bill, just bite on this bagel and let's.

€ MACHINE OWNED: Gameboy

€ FAVE SOFTWARE: Super Mario Bros
€ DESIRED MACHINE: Super Famicom
Oh Bill, just what would your father think
of this? An All-American boy with a
fixation for Japanese world domination?

1 get lots of letters from Gameboy
‘owners and | can tell you one thing —
they're all heading for what we Freudians
call Compact Introversion. This is a state
wherein a person transposes their entire
conscious faculties on to extremely
small objects. It's a very worrying
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pre-determined point in the game,
as happens in game demos on
cover disks.

My protection method would
be successful, | believe, as rather
than pirates getting a perfect copy
of the program that they have
copied, they will be getting a demo

| version, which would probably be
| circulated by other pirates, and get
a wide audience who could judge
whether or not the program is.
their way to be small themselves - and worth buying or not.
thus appear more attractive and thereby The beauty of my method is a
less of a threat. In fact, the Japanese “try-before-you-buy” scheme,
peoples are the Super Mario Brothers. All | which would probably increase the
sixty million of them. quality of software, as no-one
The point being, Bill, is that they want | would buy a program if the demo
you to be a brother too. Yes, I'm afraid of it was rubbish,
you're turning Japanese on an almost Chris Moore,Worthing, Sussex.
daily basis and this is very worrying,
Very soon your clothes will no longer fit I LIKE THE idea about disabled menus —
you and you'll spend alll your time this is rather like the idea put forward in
making videos of even the most these pages a while ago about the try-
insignificant events. Like playing Super before-you-buy disks. | also like the idea
Mario Brothers. Soon you'll divide your | about an illegal game copy turning into a
time between playing the game and | demo, but | don't know how foolproof
watching videos of yourself playing the either of these methods would be.
game. You poor, pathetic В | think much more stringent methods
PROGNOSIS: Although the Super need to be adopted, because once it's
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white noise. You will shortly realise that completely disables your machine. Still,
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Whilst on holiday in Europe |
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Is there something we should
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VUE

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that there was a letter questioning
why the NeXT computers have no
facility to read PC or Mac disks. In
answer to this letter you agreed
that the NeXT should feature such
capabilities. It already does!!

We have had a NeXT since
about a week before your review
and | have had no problems
importing ASC11 text files over
from our PC.

Using the 'BuildDOS"

| Write Now

Write and tell Haydn Fitz-Williams what
you think! Reach him at: Express Mail,
30 Monmouth Street, Bath ВАТ 2BW.
Sorry, no personal replies, even with an
SAE and remember, only SOME letters
win a fiver

TF On-line mail

Own a modem? Then squirt us a letter.
Express has its own area on Aspects
bulletin board ( 061 792 0260) where you
can leave тай and upload! download
files

We also have our own conference
on CIX. Give this on-line service a ring
0n 081-390 1244 and talk to us direct!
You can also leave E-mail for us on
Prestel and Micronet @ 011112623, or
on Telecom Gold @84:txt152

command on the NeXT you can
format a disk to be used for DOS
‘on normal PC's. Likewise, DOS
formatted disks can be both read
and written on by the NeXT. This
enables 'Data transfer between the
NeXT and DOS platforms to
become completely transparent’ (a
quote from one of the manuals).

On the Mac compatibility side,
I believe an external floppy drive
that can read Mac Disks in a similar
way is already available.

I hope this information can be
helpful to some people in choosing
‘one of these machines as | have
found the NeXT is a really good
machine in most other aspects.

M. Robinson, London

THANKS for that qualification M — like
you | really rate the NeXT — I just hope
sufficient quality software keeps coming
out for it.

| Б Clare

Clare - sorry to hear about the
perv, but it doesn't take a freudian
to note that all men are!

Clare, | have noticed the use of
similar word structures in your
prognosis etc., this leads me to
believe that you are not using the
right info to formulate your
otherwise brilliant paragraphs.

TH,

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D< Pedant's Point

(strictly not a point but a subset of two-dimensional space)

Frank J Hollis, in Pedant's point has got it
wrong. (Ha ha ha ha ha.)

The first electron in an atom of neon
may take only 20 eV to remove (and in
fact it actually takes 21.56821896eV, so
you're wrong anyway, and no-one uses
Vs nowadays, it’s all in Joules, so you're
wrong again), but a quick look through
my chemistry databook tells me that the
last takes 1362.23876eV.

The last electron from Argon (also
an inert gas), takes а fantastic
4426.366497eV. Also, when you realise
that most thing in chemistry are
calculated in moles (no, not those little
things that go round in tunnels), just try
to imagine 6*10 23 (that's
602,204,500,000,000,000,000) fleas. Quite
a few, don't you think?

All in all, anyone who can get a neon
10+ ion is very clever, because quite
often, before you've managed to remove

So here's how to change that
subconscious fluidity point.

Read Robot Dreams by Isaac
Asimov, The Emperor's New Mind
by Roger Penrose (anything on
Fractal's might be a good idea).

Watch Dune, Manhunter, T2 -
Dreamscape and Firestarter

Listen to Lori Anderson and
any New Wave music
Places to be: Image Processing '91
and a lecture with computing with

the second electron, another one's
become attracted to the «ve lon, and has
attached Itself, and they must have
expended much more energy than
‘someone just pulling a joystick off a
table. If you really wanted a strong force
for a simile, however, why not use ‘the
strong force’ which binds neutrons in the
nucleus. We are talking seriously strong
here.

Thope this has clarified things!
Geoff Winkless, Leicester.

YES BUT eight decimal places can only
ever be an approximation and what
we're after here is precise accuracy. If
you'd be so kind as to send a proper
calculation, something pertaining to an
infinite list of decimals, I'll be only too
happy to serialise it over the next 101
Express's, or until infinity equals 0
again — whichever is the soonest.

light?
In other words, get wicked
sister!

Napoleon Complex

OVER TO CLARE for this one.

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€ What'll be new at the MacUser Show?
€ Comms software for Classic owners
€ IBM fares badly at MacHack conference

RUMOURS...

Initial press releases for the MacUser
Show, to be held in London in
November, are beginning to filter through
already. Principal Distribution tells us that
it will have the largest stand at this year's
show (what about MacUser magazine's?),
and will be demonstrating, “many of the
latest Macintosh products апа
technologies" — whatever they may be.

Specifically, the company has an
exclusive distribution deal for
FrameMaker 3.0, the high-end page
make-up package which runs on UNIX
workstations and the NeXT machine as
well as the Macintosh. The company
also has sole distribution rights for
Adobe products, so expect to see
Mustrator З and the new Photoshop 2.0
on the stand.

There will also be (and | quote), “The
Hublet, a 10BaseT splitter that turns one
10BaseT port into four, simply by plugging
the Hublet into an RJ45 jack." It's made
by Shiva; any suggestions as to what on
earth it could possibly be should be sent
to me on a postcard.

TERMINAL
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Mercury Communications (the
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of Macs in an effort to upgrade its
equipment. Apparently the Mac will
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Some of the silicon brain-trust were not happy with the
proposed agreement. The prospect of IBM's RS/6000 RISC
processor as the heart of future Macs did not make for smiling
faces. They hoped that the CPUs would be chosen solely on
technological merits. Kirk Loevner, Director of Apple's Developer
Group, was hissed and booed when he said that business

in the company, replacing IBM PCs.
They will be connected to DEC and IBM
mainframes via Ethernet. This is Apple
UK's largest-ever single company deal.
Just thought you'd like to know...

Apple's announcement that it will be
incorporating a version of Adobe Type
Manager (ATM) into a future version of
System 7 has led to some speculation
that when this happens, TrueType will
become somewhat superfluous.

The word is that Apple realised
TrueType would never really rival
PostScript too much in the desktop
publishing arena, so the company
decided to have the best of both worlds
and incorporate both. It will be interesting

POSTCARD FROM AMERICA

No one came down with a hacking cough at MacHack
conference. This is where you can calch the act of some of the
self-proclaimed best and brightest Macintosh programmers.
The conference took place with the backdrop of the
Apple/IBM talks in Armonk, New York. Apple white-collars were
pressed hard for details, but the infamous Bash Apple session
мав fairly tame. The moderator of that session traditionally
carries a baseball bat to protect the Apple Developer Technical
Services representatives from the mad dog technolds! This time
the Apple programmers came armed with Nerf crossbows, and

Apple/IBM talks.

goofball prizes. For the

concerns were of equal importance to technology in the

to see whether the font companies such
as Bitstream, Monotype and Linotype
continue to support TrueType when the
new System software finally appears, or
whether the new font format will quietly
fade into the background...

FILE COMPRESSION
Aladdin Systems, the company
responsible for the widely-used Stuffit
file compression program, has just
announced something called Stuffit
SpaceMaker, a compression program
designed to free up space on a hard disk
in a user-transparent manner.

According to the company, the
software works by automatically

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The MacHack contest and award banquet concluded the
week's festivities. Little programs that are brought to the
conference, or written entirely there, are awarded acclaim and

first time a couple of Microsoft code-

masters came to the conference. There's plenty of animosity In
the small developer community to the software giant, so the
universal brother/sister-hood of all programmers was put to the
test. Everyone was pleased by the warm reception offered them.

They teamed up with some Apple people, and wrote a

Ann Arbor."

detente hack, AlíasThis!, for the contest. Drop something on
AliasThis!, and a System 7 alias appears automatically in your
Apple Menu. The description said, “Forget backroom meetings In
Armonk. What really counts is late-night coding in hotel rooms in

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ich compressing (reducing in size) any file or
folder with a preset keyword attached to

pe

the its name. The compression speed is

or apparently comparable to that of

Ay dedicated hardware-based NuBus cards,

and most files are cut in size by 50 per
cent — some picture files may reduce by

| as much as 98 per cent, although of
ny course that depends on the image.

jit The program also has something
ust called ‘Idle-time compression, where
flt any file which has not been modified for
am а specified period of time will be
isk compressed in the background while the

Mac is not doing anything else.

the According to Aladdin, the program
aly has been designed to work with virus

detection programs like SAM and hard
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This sounds like a great idea for
^ those who find a 20Mb — or even 40Mb
hard disk just too small to keep all those
3 files and applications оп. More news
А about price and availability when we get
it, but the US recommended price is
$59.95 — so expect it to be about £40-
£50 over here.

NEW COMMS PACKAGE
AM Technology has introduced a budget
version of the popular Vicom comms
package for the low-cost Macs.

Vicom is especially favoured by
those who don't know (or don't want to
know) too much about comms — it is
extremely user-friendly, and can easily
be set up so that bulletin boards can be
accessed simply by clicking on an icon;
the package does the rest.

MAC FACT

In the ‘just thought you'd like to know
category, MacWorld US this month
reports that there are 165,000 Macs in
the United Kingdom, representing a 3.8
per cent share of the personal computer

market in this country. In the States, on
the other hand, there are about three

million of the little devils, which is a 20
per cent share of the personal computer
market. Methinks they define ‘personal
computer a little differently to the rest
of us.

Vicom also supports Viewdata
systems like Prestel, which most other
comms packages don't. (Although the
shareware DA Pretzel, available trom
most bulletin boards and PD libraries,
will do the job if you don't have Vicom)

The package is restricted in that it
will only work with modems which
support the V.22bis standard or below —
that's 2,400 baud to the rest of us —
although with MNPS this still produces
an effective throughput of 4,800 baud.

Classicom will cost £85 plus VAT,
and for a limited period this price
includes a free modem cable.
Purchasers of Classicom will be able to
trade up to members of the main Vicom
range at a reduced rate

If you need a comms package, and
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Such as ZTerm, give AM Technology a
ring on 0202 293233.

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@ Is Amstrad’s games РС a threat to the СРС?
© 15 Plotting worth puzzling over?

€ CPC/PCW #1

NEW 16-BIT
GAMES MACHINE
Amstrad is to launch a new games-
oriented machine called the PC5286,
which will be bundled with Prince of
Persia, F-15 and Links. At last, could this
be the 16-bit Amstrad everyone's been

waiting for?

Forget it. In fact, the new machine is
reckoned to be a pretty bog-standard PC,
albeit running on a 286 chip and with
VGA graphics and a 40Mb hard disk.
And it won't be shaking up the ST and
Amiga, either, not with a price tag of just
over £1,000.

Does all this mean Amstrad is
turning to the PC market for its games
involvement? Will the company ditch the
B-bit Plus?

After the PC200 farago (remember
that?), Amstrad should tread carefully.
Looking closely at the (rumoured) specs,
what's coming up is — again — a low-cost,
not-very-expandable PC aimed at games
players as well as serious users. Hmm...

Amstrad's love affair with the PC
looks like it's here to stay. Where's the

transferring made easy(ish)

lechnical innovation that inspired the
original CPC? Where's the brilliant new
16-bit hobbyist machine that will oust the
ST and Amiga?

Let's face it, it's not going to happen.
The CPC, Amstrad’s first burst of
inspiration, will probably be its last. If
Amstrad ever did produce a 16-bit CPC
I'd eat my hat (if | wore one).

FIENDISH PLOTTING?
While most games publishers are
muttering under their breath about the
console and cartridge software, Ocean is
Still plugging away, turning out cartridge
games at the rate of one every couple of
months or so.

| can't wait for Toki, which looks
fabulous, but is still a couple of months
from release — but in the meantime, the
latest cartridge product to roll off those

Mancunian production lines is Plotting.
Sounds like another puzzle game,
doesn't it. That's because it is. It's not
entirely unlike Puzznic, the idea being
that you — playing the part of a kind of
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same pattern and colour as the one
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another tile from the pile is chucked back
at you.

You have to reduce the pile of tiles
to a certain level within a time limit.
Succeed, and you go on to the next
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It's also Game Over when you lose
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Tow/column, because the one chucked
back at you is always the next in line.
Only if there isn't a next in line, you're
stuffed.

doesn't inject much excitement

The theory goes something like that,
anyway. The trouble is, the rules are
either complicated or incredibly obscure.
| still don't know which.

Graphics and sound? Quite superb
- the programmers really have used the
enhanced hardware to great effect to
effectively achieve 16-bit quality.

И only graphics and sound were
enough. The fact is that Plotting is dull.
It's OK at first, before you quite work out
what's going on, but once you have the
idea you've more or less exhausted the
interest factor.

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TALK TO ME...
John R. Hudson of Huddersfield has
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While there are very few CP/M
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machine without modification.

"Most commercial programs that run
on both come either in a different
versions for each machine or with an
installation program for each version, as
with Supercalc 2. Once installed, the
program behaves in exactly the same
way whatever the machine. However, it
is usually worthwhile to write a key
definition file for use with SETKEYS to
get the best out of programs.

"Having said that, all the word-
processing, database, spreadsheet,
graphics and drawing packages | have
tried on both CPC and PCW produce
datafiles which can be read by either
version of the program and in some
cases by the PC versions of the same
program.

"But though PCW 8000 series
machines will read files from a CPC or
6128 Plus disk, they cannot save them to
such a disk. (Hold on a mo, John - my
PCW can read from and write to 178K
data format disks perfectly happily. It
can't make sense of 175K system disks,
though. Neither can the CPC make much
sense of 173K CF2 format PCW disks...)

“The solution is to get one of the
utility programs that allow a CPC or 6128
Plus to read from and write to PCW disks
and use this on the CPC or 6128 Plus
with any disks containing files created on
or to be used by a PCW.

“Examples are:

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"Of these, PCWDBP.COM only
works with drive B: but has a program to
revert to CPC/6128 Plus format without
having to reboot CP/M, as you have to
with most other programs. As it was
published as an assembler program, it
can also be adapted for use with other
disk formats.

“8256.COM comes on a disk (Spool,
Shell and other Utilities) which includes a
program to format both CPC and PCW
disks. So CPC/6128 Plus users do not
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lo or from a CPC or 6128 Plus format
disk in the other drive.

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program but CP/M-MSDOS file transfer
programs such as 2in1 from Moonstone
Computing can be used to transfer data
from CPC to PC and back. However,
most PC programs don't use identical
datafiles to those used on the CPC.”

Ouch! Well there speaks a man who
knows what he's talking about. Thanks
for all that information, John.

Rod Lawton

|MACHINE SPECIFICS|

€ At last the 3-inch disk drive arrives
€ Somewhere over the Rainbow (collection)
€ Adventure Probe - the best fanzine yet?

SIX SECOND WONDER
As reported in Express 147 a new
3.5-inch disk drive is to be released for
the C64 by TIB. The device plugs
Straight into the cartridge port, as
Opposed to the disk drive socket,
relinquishing the need for a cumbersome
power-pack.

TIB claims the £90 drive will
primarily appeal to programmers, in

which case the company's decision to
bundle it with a games compilation
seems a bit odd.

On average an entire 64k of
information can be loaded in under 6
seconds — now, forgive me if I'm wrong,
but won't 6-second loading be more
advantageous to a multi-load game than
а programmer?

If the drive is successful, and let's

hope it is, it could banish cartridges (and
the GS) forever, simply because the
disks are staggeringly cheap to produce
and they can hold more information than
a standard ROM cartridge (about 720k).

John Rowlands, full time
programmer from APEX, reckons, "It will
definitely be a good programmer's tool,
with the storage space/fast loading being
ideal. From a games point of view it
becomes a little awkward, and ultimately
it is down to the software houses to
produce software for it in order to lure the
public into purchasing it."

Compilations would certainly be the
best products to achieve this initially, but
whether the drive will take off is no sure
thing, Had it been released two or three
years ago, the situation would have been
totally different, and as a result the GS
would probably never have been released.

Continued on page 31 >

GETTING ADVENTUROUS

In addition to the 3-0 Construction Kit newsletter that |
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the Immensely popular Adventure Probe tanzine, established
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* Bubble Bobble, perhaps the best of the three superb games on Ocean's
latest compilation - the Rainbow Collection

It should be very interesting to see
how the product fares їп the
marketplace, and rest-assured I'll be
putting the drive through its paces in this
very column.

CRUCIAL COLLECTION
The Rainbow Collection is OCEAN's
latest compilation, and though it only
contains three games, it is one of the
company’s best.

€ Bubble Bobble is perhaps the most
accurate arcade conversion ever seen.
One or two players take on the roles of
Bub and Bob, battling their way through
99 increasingly perplexing levels,

They have no vicious weapons
except for their ability to blow huge green
bubbles (cringe). When a bubble touches
‘one of the many alien beasties that infest
every level, the nasty is trapped inside —
pop this bubble within an allotted time
and it will die (often leaving a collectable
behind).

These bonuses range from trainers
(for extra speed), to fruit (for extra
points), and other little items for varied
effects (level skip, smartbombs, etc).The
aim of each screen is to wipe out all the
aliens present, but hang around too long
and the king of all meanies will appear
and stalk your every move.

|MACHINE SPECIFICS

Graphics on the whole are bright,

colourful, superbly animated, and
accurate to the arcade original. The
music (by genius Tim Follin) is

wonderful, but the game's main appeal is
playabiltiy — it simply oozes the stuff.

€ Rainbow Islands is, believe it or not,
the sequel to Bubble Bobble, but this
time our dinosaur-esque friends have
been turned into humans (shock,horror)
They must traverse the Rainbow Islands,
each one made up of four vertically-
scrolling levels.

At the top of each is a huge treasure
chest, except for the fourth; here you will
find the obligatory end-ot-level meanie —
level one, for example, features a
gigantic spider.

Thankfully, the main character is
able to cast rainbows which instantly kill
anything in their paths. Crushing an
island inhabitant (as opposed to zapping
it) results in a lovely coloured gem being
lett behind. Collect them in the correct
‘Richard Of York’ sequence (Richard Of
York Gave Battle In Vain — the initials
give you the order of the colours in a
rainbow, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue, Indigo, Violet) and a secret room is
revealed at the end of the level.

Graphics are colourful and cute
almost to the point of sickliness, and a
little blocky at times. The sound is a
cheery (and often nauseating) rendition
of ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’

Each level is very similar to the last,
and this lessens the appeal of what is
otherwise a great conversion.
€ New Zealand Story is a tale of one

Kiwi's struggle against oppression in this
case an evil Walrus.

Our hero, Tiki, is the only free Kiwi —
all twenty of his chums have been
imprisoned by the aforementioned bad
guy. Armed only with a bow and arrow,
and a nifty snorkel, it's up to Tiki to save
the day.

The game is divided into five levels,
each consisting of four separate 'rounds'.
The aim in each one is to rescue an
encaged kiwi. This task is made ever
more hazardous by a multitude of weird
creatures that try to hinder you. Some
ride around on balloons and floating
platforms which can be hijacked by Tiki
to fly around the level; he can nick some
of their weapons too.

Each round is huge, with some
rather cunning watery mazes to swim
through. There are also lots of fatally
spikey things lying around.

On the final round of each level you
come face to face with a huge baddy.
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The graphics are a little dull in
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the music is jolly. What really lets the
whole game down is some shoddy
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negotiation tedious.

The Rainbow Collection is available
on cassette for £9.99 and on disk for
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@ New SAM Coupé Public Domain magazine
@ How to hack your way Operation Hanoi

MIDI EXTENSION

In case you didn't already know, the best
music making package for the Speccy is
G Rowland's Music Writer.

A few columns back | told you how
i's been made even better with an
extension utility (COMPILER.XTN) that
allows scores to run independently of the
main program. But that's not the only
new extension for the package. Another
add on XTN program called MIDI.XTN
now provides MIDI options for budding
Speccy musos.

MIDI compatible

MIDI.XTN means scores or bars can
be played through the MID! instrument of
your choice via the RS232 port or a third
party interface like Datel's RAM Music
Machine.

It includes two other useful options.
Program changes and extra chord notes
can be sent to your MIDI instrument as
well as the monophonic parts. This is
apparently a Very Good Thing Indeed.

The author admits, "While the new
MIDLXTN doesn't promise (һе
sophistication of sequencing on the

POKE PUBLICATION

For regular readers the name of Alan
Johns should be deeply etched in the
‘subconscious as belonging to one of the
most prolific hackers this column has
seen (вее his poke for Operation Напо!
below).

| mention the generous and
eminently talented bloke again because
he's just collected his life's work into one
volume of Multiface pokes and cheats.
Running to 13 pages, it contains hacks

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« If you own a Sam and you want to get hold of
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16-bit micros it does make composing
music on the Spectrum a much more
enjoyable experience for those with MIDI
equipment."

What more could any self respecting
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including postage from G Rowland, PO
Box 49, Dagenham RM9 5NY. A leaflet
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available from the same address.

SAM DISKS APLENTY
The SAM Coupé seems to be attracting
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stereo sound and showing off its virtues
with impressive graphics demos.

The newest one to hit the streets is
SAM Coupe PD Update. This is from the
same team of talented individuals who
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It aims to collect together а disk load
of good quality Public Domain software

every issue and offer a
“doorway into the
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On the sample issue
this includes a collection of
news on the SAM and PD
world, a few demos,
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scopes and reviews. For £1
it's well worth sampling.

The first proper issue
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promised include such
delights as the Satellite 91
Rolling Demo, Enceladus
demos, ads and, er, some
more demos.

SAMDISK has a few other things
that should interest SAMsters:

€ The Pickasso Portfolio is a PD
disk that apparently features 20 odd
screens, 12 fonts and two demos all
for £2.

@ And, of course, the original
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опе, issue five, has news, tech tips,
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for £2.

If you're a newcomer to the
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Omnibus might be the one to go for
at the same price.

All these disks are available from
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It's good to see the SAM Public

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BAD NEWS
DEPARTMENT

Hate to ruin your day but someone has
just told me about the death of ETM
(Enigma Tape Mag), the thoroughly
excellent Speccy tapezine that has been

Thanks to both Alan and Matthew
for hacking well above and beyond the
call of duty.

NEWS WANTED

Do you have any Spectrum news that
we'd be interested in? Send details of
your software, product, club, service,
fanzine or whatever for thorough
plugging to me, Robin Alway at New
Computer Express, 30 Monmouth Street,
Bath, Avon BA1 2BW. Thanks.

Robin Alway

plugged in this column since its first
issue. | haven't heard anything from from
publishers ESD about this but if true it
would be bad to the point of disastrous
news for Speccy owners everywhere.
More details when | get them.

FEED Your ST

[MACHINE SPECIFICS |

€ Gameboy: widescreen and colour on the way
€ PC Engine: most realistic pinball sim yet?
€ Sega's Mega-CD: first game announced

GAMEBOY 2 AND 3?
Nintendo has sold a few million
Gameboys since it's launch, but with the
colour portables from Sega and Atari in

* An new widescreen version of the
Gameboy is on its way, but
whenare we going to see some
colour on its screen?

competition, the company has plans to
produce a new Gameboy.

The obvious upgrade would be
colour but the word is that Nintendo has
instead given priority for a wide screen
version of the original Gameboy, so
watch out!

It's also rumoured that Nintendo
won't produce a colour Gameboy until it
can design a machine that will last at
least ten hours on four AA type batteries
- very ambitious considering all three
colour handhelds, including the PC
Engine GT, use six batteries and last only
a few hours.

Apparently, the main problem is the
colour screen which is very power
consuming, One possible solution
Nintendo is considering is fitting the
Gameboy with a solar panel to sustain
the life of the battery.

Help could be at hand, as Sharp,
which has cooperated with Nintendo on
the SF1 Super Famicom/monitor
combination, has confirmed that
Nintendo's specifications are possible to
produce! Maybe we'll see Sharp and

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LEVEL LEAPING SONIC CHEAT

This is an old cheat for Sonic
the Hedgehog, but just in case
you didn't know, to get the
level select:

On the title screen, press
the control pad Up, Down, Left,
Right and you should hear a
ring. Hold down button A and
press START. If you have done
В right, you will be able to
select which level to start from.

If this doesn't work, try
pressing Down three times
instead of once.

Nintendo get together to produce the
colour gameboy?

MEGA BLAST

The first shoot-'em-up for Sega's Mega-
CD will be a conversion of Aleste, the
vertical blaster released for the standard
Mega Drive a few months a go. How the
game will make use of the extra features
of the Mega-CD is anyone's guess, but
we just have to wait and see.

No release dates for the game as
yet — well, it does take some time to fill
around 540 megabytes!

AMERICAN FOOTIE
Imagineer, which has bought the rights
to convert Populous and Kick Off II for
the Super Famicom (the latter game
should be available at the end of

September under the title Pro Soccer),
has now also bought the rights for the
best American Footie game from
Electronic Arts – John Madden's Football
The Super Famicom version looks
identical to the Mega Drive version, and
should be available around November.

PINBALL REALISM
The best pinball simulations are on the
PC Engine, what with the excellent Alien
Crush and Devil Crash from Naxat. The
latest will come from FACE. Called Time
Cruise Il it will be available in October.

The game looks fantastic with the
main table several screens in length and

featuring all. the usual bumpers,
spinners, ball catches and so forth, plus
multiple bonus tables.

However, FACE has added an extra

touch. If you own a multi-tap (five-player
adaptor), you can connect three pads to
it One pad will start the game and
control other features, while the other
two pads controls the flippers.

It's recommended that the latter two
pads are fixed to the sides of a table to
get the ‘feel’ of a real pinball machine!
Crazy of what?! Trust the Japanese to
come up with that!

One good thing — kicking the table
will never tilt the machine!

WHY THREE LIVES?
Have you ever wondered why most
games always seem to give you three
lives? Well, according to one Mr Maeda
of top arcade company, Taito:
€ With five lives, players are too relaxed
and there's no tension or excitement
when playing.
© Four is considered an unlucky number
@ Three is a lucky number, according to
old tradition sayings!

Well now you know!

MEGA-ROCKMAN
Forget Sonic on the Megadrive or Mario
on the Super Famicom, because
Rockman is here on the Gameboy. |

The game — Rockman World, is a
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missions against a bunch of baddies
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You have to negotiate difficult
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ice covered platforms. There are also

* Rockman World is one of the best
games ever to come out on the
Gameboy

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and a multitude of nasties to take out.
Rockman World is real ace, and
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just happens to be from Capcom too! If

you own a Gameboy, don't miss this!
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606 hard drive reputed to be in
working order. From what | can
gather it's 5Mb and IBM/AMSTRAD
compatible. Can you offer any
information about it?

Would | be able to hook it up
to an XT and if so, how? Also is
there a Shugart dealer in the UK
with whom І can get in touch with?

Barry Walton, Whitley Bay

БМВ HARD DRIVES used to be the
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Unfortunately | have been unable to
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drive. From what | can gather so far you
should be able to use a standard hard
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Ihave a problem when using my
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When ! print out a document from
First Word Plus | lose the first half
page of the data and | get strange
form feeds and garbage printed
out. | have similar problems with
Degas Elite and Certificate Maker, |
lose the first section of data.

The same printer works fine
with a Compuadd PC, but does not

You ran a small article a couple of months back about
connecting the Amstrad monitor to other computers.

Great, but how about telling us if it can be connected to a
PC? Иво, which - CGA, EGA, МОА, СА?

THERE ARE A VARIETY of different monitors sold by
Amstrad with its machines. As far as its PCs are concerned,
the monitors range from mono CGA monitors and colour CGA
monitors on the basic 1640 PCs, as well as more advanced
EGA screens, to colour VGA monitors like those seen in the
new PC5000 series. (See news pages 4 and 5.)

Ail of these can be connected to a PC reasonably easily,
once you have a suitable cable. For more specific details on

work with a friend's ST, and my ST. |
works with a friend's LC10. Can
you shed some light on this? |

Phil Sirvid, Stratford-upon-Avon

THE PROBLEM is that the parallel port
is underpowered, as the design of the ST |
uses the YM2149 sound chip to drive the

printer instead of a dedicated Centronics |
|

chip. There are several solutions to the
problem.

First try a shorter lead, the longer
the lead the more power needed to drive
it. If this does not work then try a printer
buffer from someone like Inmac,
although this can be quite expensive.

The third solution is to build a buffer
yourself. There were details of this
project in issue two of ST Applications,
available from the ST Club, which can be
contacted on 0602 410241.

Six of the best

1) Can | use an American
configured Supra 2400 modem on
the BT network just using an
adaptor to swap between the
network plugs? If so, where can |
get one; if not, what else needs
doing?

2) What are the best Amiga
comms progs and where can | get
them?

3) What good free
membership services are there,
and what are their numbers? Will
they support a Supra 2400
modem?

4) Can | use the BT star
service called ‘call holding’ on a
modem and cordless phone so
they can be used on a single line?

Ihave a tone phone and a digital

exchange.

5) How much does it cost to
download a disk's worth of PD.
from a BBS defined at ‘a’ rate off-
peak? How much for a BBS
defined at 'b1' rate?

6) How long does it take to
download 880K of data using а
2400 baud modem? A friend told
me it's 48 minutes. Is this right?

Simon Richards,
Twickenham, Middlesex

1) YES. You can get one for under a
tenner from just about any shop that
sells telephone equipment.

2) NCommis probably the best
comms program in the world. You can
get it from the Public Domain on Fish
DISK 356.

3) There are hundreds of BBSs in
this country. Two of the better ones are
Code-o-matic (telephone 0472 360811)
and Cheam Amiga BBS (081 644 8714).
Check out Express On-line on page 49.

4) No, because whenever another
call comes in while you are on the
phone, a beep is sounded and this would
corrupt any data being sent or received
by the modem. Having said thal, you can
still use a telephone that supports call
holding, but you will have to turn the
feature off while using your modem.

5) There is no ‘a’ rate. Calls at
cheap rate in band 1 cost just under 5p
for 220 seconds. Downloading a disk's
worth of code will cost you roughly 68p.

6) Yes, l'm afraid it is.

rj" upgrades

1 have a Mitsubishi 3.5- inch floppy, |
| issue of STFM you have, as some

double-sided, high density disk
drive model No: MF 355C-358M

r1 Getting the right connections...

which cables go with which monitors, it would be best to get in
touch with Amstrad on 0277 228888.

As for what title Nottingham Forest should get, we can
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and wonder if | could utilise this as
an external drive for my Atari
STFM.

The drive itself is bare, having
no PSU or case, and the Atari ат
using runs V O. 19 and the ROM
dale is 22.04.91.

Can | upgrade the Atari to the.
1040 model as the circuit board
has spaces for 4 x 424256-10
DRAM chips, a space marked
‘blitter chip’ and spaces for three
ROM chips marked FE-L, FD-L
AND FE-H.

1 feel, from reading your
column, that you must be bored
stiff answering a query that is in a
similar vein to so many that you
have had, but I do not have a clue
as to how | would go about
discovering if the above
‘upgrades’ are possible. (Is there a
book on Atari hardware/software

upgrades and add-ons?)
РЈ McCreanor, London.

UNFORTUNATELY the Atari ST is not
able to use high density floppy drives, as
the floppy disk controller WD1772 is only
able to cope with single and double
density formats.

The TOS version, GEMDOS
version, etc, bear no relation to HD
drives. However, the Atari Workshop.
supplies an upgrade kit which consists of
a bare internal HD drive and HD floppy
controller chip, or external drive with
power supply and HD floppy controller or
just the controller chip alone. They will
also fit it for you. The Atari Workshop is
0n 071-708-5755

The basic difference between the
520 STFM and the 1040 STFM is the
memory. Whether the Blitter chip can be
installed depends entirely upon which

boards actually need drilling.

Your best bet is to contact one of
the major companies who specialise in
memory and blitter upgrades, such as
Ladbroke Computing or Frontier. If you
let them know the issue number on the
main circuit board they will be able to
give the information you need. | do not
know of any book that deals specifically
with upgrades and add ons.

| pj! package

Тат studying programming at
college. The language we use Is
Pascal running on PCs. | would.
like to be able to do my homework
оп my Amiga 500. Do you know of
any Pascal packages that will work
with the Amiga?

Jonathon Pemble, Brixton, London

wanted to set the vectors to zero.

jas and there it was again.

The upshot of which Is this, it seems to me that
what Гуе discovered was a virus which VirusX saw as

Тат writing to you to inform you of what might
possibly be a new strain of virus on the Amiga. |
discovered it while checking out some PD with VirusX
v4.01, } loaded the disk into Workbench then 1
activated VirusX. It told me that it had discovered the
Australian Parasite in memory, and asked me If |

After clearing the memory | switched the machine
off as usual for around 20 seconds, then rebooted
from hard disk. Then | repeated the same virus check

Єў Let the virus take the strain |

tell's you that your floppy is not а DOS disk.

But wait a minute, ! never thought it possible, И.
can write to your bootblock's while your disk is write
protected! Yep, you read that correctly, and no, I'm
not mistaken, | made It write to a protected disk three
times, amazing | thought, how in hell can it do that!!!

W's very Important how you detect this virus, you
MUST put the Infected disk in your drive first then
active VirusX. If you do it the other way about you'll
miss it. The virus lives quite simply as part of the
Disk-Validator, which means it's tough to get rid of. If
you try to clear the memory it re-valldates the floppy
and loads Disk-Validator and then the Virus, very
clever. If you try to delete ће Disk-Validator гот L
directory, the virus senses what you are doing and

ing | Australian Parasite but was not. According to Steve

am Tibbet's text file Australian Parasite [s a bootblock

] virus, the new virus Is a Ше virus or Trojan horse. Guru's you, very neat.
Steve say's that the Australian Parasite virus is

he harmless and only turns your screen upside down.
| The new strain does far more damage. It closes
down your floppy drives, but your hard drive is left
alone thank goodness. If you try to access a floppy

The only solution I've come up with is to copy ай
the files on the disk on to the hard disk, with the
exception of L/Disk-Validator, of course. Then shut not possible,
down your system for at least 20 seconds, turn on and
format a new disk, copy the files to the new disk and
copy a clean copy of Disk-Validator on to the new

;

I've written to Steve Tibbet about the new virus
and sent him the wee beastie, if you wish to verify
then give me a call and I'll down load the beast to you,
via modem, if you wish.

Don't forget that it's very difficult to detect - insert
your disk into Workbench first, then load up VirusX or
it will get through undetected.

Andy Wilkinson, Lytham St Annes

THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION. The virus you
mentioned does seem to be a new variation of the
Australian Parasite. In fact, in Express 148 Michael
Flanz seemed to find a similar strain of the virus, again
using VirusX, This would suggest that this particular
virus is becoming quite widespread.

The debate over whether a virus can write to а
write-protected disk has been going on for a number of
years now, with the general consensus being that it's

We're a bit doubtful about your claim that this
new virus can write to any disk, But if you send us a
сору of it on a disk, do not upload the virus for us, we
can see how it works ourselves.

supporting the machine.
Fortunately we have Samco's own
Revelation label (Prince of Persia,
-а YS Megagame) which is trying
to get Psygnosis to license a

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WELL, IF IT IS THE KEYBOARD
PROCESSOR it is quite easy to replace
as it is one of the few chips which has a
socket on the ST, which means you don't

have to do any soldering. The keyboard Coupé version of Lemmings.
processor is a single chip computer Generally, the Coupé is a
(controller) from the 6800 family, the machine with a very nice

6301. It is usually available from Silica
Shop (081-309-1111) and the current
price is £20 plus VAT.

The Alt-Help problem is quite
common as the screen dump routine is
set up for 9-pin Epson compatible

keyboard. Its MIDI capabilities, its
6-channel sound chip, its price
and its ASIC all go towards making
it a wonderful machine.
Unfortunately, the 8-bit
processor, the inferior display, its

е the virus randomly causes a Guru or a systems crash
ог telis you that your floppy has а read/write error or disk.
| purposes.”
4 АТ THE MOMENT, there is only one Er, the Poll Tax is a tax on
na Pascal package available. It's called individuals, not premises. I've
П РСО and is freely available in the Public heard a rumour that it's to be done
lue Domain on Fish Disk 339. It's a little away with.
complicated to set up, but I'm sure that I think you should stick to the
being a bright young student you'll have techie aspects and not try to give
rea no worries there. Unfortunately, it can't business advice.
re handle some of Pascal’s more advanced Martin Dryden,
features. The South West Software Library, Dorset
don. You might want to keep your eyes
open for HighSpeed Pascal, a
ot professional compiler due for imminent THANKS FOR THE INFO. We do try to
‚а5 release from HiSoft. Contact them on concentrate on technical matters as
only 0525 718181. much as possible, but really we are
dependent on the letters we get sent in
to answer. Business matters are
om probably out of the scope of this column,
Setting upa PD but when we get asked something like.
| that, to a certain extent we are obliged to
is of «ompany answer them.
py That said, to everyone out there
reading this column, please try to confine
ot oF I'm writing to correct some your questions to those dealing with
il mistakes in the answer to the technical matters, preferably about
13 person who wants to start a PD computers...

library (DIY PD, Express 147).
“Treat the idea seriously, be

e

а prepared to solve customer

nbe problems, know the product...”

h Yes, yes, yes! | couldn't agree
more.

"You will be a company and

of should register as one."

п No! You could just as easily

8 be a sole trader, or a partnership.

ou You don't need to register as a

he company.

0 "To do this you would go to

vt the IRS and get a VAT number"

ally No, no, no! To register as a
company you go to Companies
House. The IRA (Internal Revenue
Service) is an American institution,
not relevant to the UK. In this

1 country the Inland Revenue is
concerned with Income Tax, not
VAT. It requires you to declare

1 your earnings via your annual tax

17 return, The body to contact to

id register for VAT (if your turnover

work exceeds £31,000) is H M Customs

Ow of and Excise.

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Fi Mouse trouble

1 have had my 520STFM for just over
two years, and recently I have had
severe problems getting the mouse to
work. As | still have the original Atari
mouse, | thought it could be that at
fault, so before buying a new mouse, |
tried a friend's on my ST. It did not
work.

When playing two player games, На
Joystick is connected to the mouse port,
with a multi-meter and everything is still
connected, so | think it could be the
keyboard chip. As | cannot afford to
have it repaired professionally, | would
like to attempt the repair myself. If itis
the keyboard chip that is faulty, do you
know where I can get another from?

Also, | have a 24-pin Epson LQ-500,
and | cannot get Alternate-help to work
with it, every line of the screen is
printed on the same line, le, the paper is
not being fed through. What am 1 doing

wrong?
Andrew Wales, Sheffield

printers. The answer lies in a PD lack of Centronics and RS232
program which replaces the screen ports (which you have to plug into
dump routine with its own routine. Also the expansion port and cost £30),
included on the disk is a program which its non-standard sound output
lets you create your own customised port, the high prices of memory
printer driver. The disk is available from upgrades (£80 per Mb) and the

the South West Software Library at PO
Box 562, Wimbourne, Dorset BH21 2YD,
and is called The Alt-Help Solution.

expansion unit ай go to make Ка
machine to place in the cupboard
under the stairs.

S All coupéd up

1 read the letter from David Pitcher
in Express 145 praising the Sam
Coupé in some disbelief. ‘The
display chip is quite frankly
superb’ ... ‘very impressive specs."
n Multi-tasking’?

Fact: the display chip is not
superb. It is possibly pretty good.
The only way the Sam manages to
get 128 colours on screen is by
physically getting in there and
changing the colours every 50th of
а second, thus slowing down
horribly. In reality it has only 16
colours on screen - the 128
colours are the palette from which
each of the 16 colours are

ned.

Fact: the Sam Coupé does not
multi-task. The processor has
enough problems running just one
program. | admit that the 6-channel
stereo sound chip is superb, but it
is incredibly complex to program,
even through BASIC.

Enigma Variations is
experiencing major problems with

What the Coupé needs is a
cheap upgrade card, with more
colours, higher screen resolution,
a Z280 chip, hardware sprites and
a board to fit your own memory
chips, all in one unit featuring at
least three expansion slots.

Geoff Winkless, Leicester

WELL, IN TERMS OF HARDWARE the
Sam Coupé does have a lot going for it.
Whether the Sam will be able to survive
depends on the support it gets now and
what it will get in the future. Also, it
cannot be denied that the Sam is up
against the wall competing against the
more powerful Amiga and Atari ST.

It's good to see an 8-bit machine
trying to compete with the big boys, and
getting good support. How long this will
last is another matter. M

ght be able to help.

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© 1/2 MEG, internal drive for STFM. £10. Good
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© ATARI STFM, good condition, under guarantee,
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€ ATARI STM with 2 drives. £200. Atari Lynx,
including 4 games. £120. Amiga ext drive. £40.
Amiga 16MHz 68000. £30. Amiga software. Phone
tor list, All originals. Also 1Mb Simms wanted
under 100ns. Tal Richard on 0900 825213.

© PLEASE please has anyone got an Amiga TV
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pounds, will collect from Brighton area only. Call
Nick (0273) 673639 or write to : 7 Brede Close,
Brighton, BN2 5GR.

AMIGA PD Кот 18р a titles. Best prices, best
service, increasingly expanding library, contact
Darryl, 12 Kent Avenue, HFDS, HR9 БАО.

€ WANTED Atari 520 STFM with megabyte.
internal double sided disk drive and mouse, leads,
manuals. £160 cash waiting. Tel: 0380 727815
(Devizes, Wiltshire.) Will collect it local.

© ATARI SM125 mono monitor. £80. STM faulty
main unit only £30. Ultimate Ripper, £25.
Microsoft Write. £10. Superbase Personal £10.
Timeworks DTP. £20. Tel 071 586 6155.

е 10405ТЕ Family Curriculum pack, 2 months
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Фа. 10 months warranty left. £350 o.n.o. Tel 091
3853800.

@STOS Game Makers manual, by Stephen Hil. I
you program in STOS, this proramme is an
invaluable companion, only £5 +р+р. Tel 091
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Ф ATARI SLM804 Laser printer. £390. SH205 20
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Ф ATARI STFM D/S drive, £1400 of top quality
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Star SR10 printer, all worth loads of money. All for
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€ TRIANGLE 20Mb hard drive, fully working order
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€ ATARI 520 STFM, DS drive, SM124 monitor
1Meg 2nd drive, ай leads, manuals, books, mouse,
four games, 100+ PD disks, blanks, magazines.
240 wil split any demo, Birmingham area. Phone
Brett. 021 427 9622 buyer collects.

Ф ATARI 520STFM with joystick and software
including STOS, excellent condition. Boxed as
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£230 ол.о. Ring (0949) 50425 evenings. Including
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DTP, database, spread sheet, art etc. All originals
with instructions for Lenaghan Park, Belfast, ВТВ
4JB

е 1040 STE CM8833 monitor 45Mb HD Star
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leads, mass of software origianl and P.D. All the.
manuals you can read worth £2000 your s for
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© ST PD at 99p per disk and low cost, brand new
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Rommer, 25 Woodfields , Chipstead, Sevenoaks,
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© AMIGA PD ! Over 400 disks available you
simply send extra blanks for my time and costs.
SAE for details and listing. Enclose a blank for free
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Cornwall, PL33 SAH,

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1500/2000. Brand new, boxed and full guarantee.
Selling due to change of computer. £250 o.n.o. Tel
anytime (0304) 375311, postage paid. Expandable
Up to 8Mb.

© WANTED 68881 or 68882 Co-Pro Chip 20MHz
ог above, offer £20 for 68881 or £35 for £68882.
Phone lan, Runcorn. (0928) 701222.

© AMIGA HONDA RVF and Bantam AMigaDos
manual, 2nd edition. Swap for Mig 29 or F15 Strike
Eagle Ii. Tel: 0473 713715 between 6-9pm only.
No time wasters please. Ask for Gary.

© AMIGA А500 and Philips СМ8833 monitor
extra memory, extra drive, over £1000 worth of
software, including Amos. Also monitor Plinth
and TV tuner. Everything in excellent condition.
Bargain at £560 o.v.n.o. Ring Dermot 0276
76156 Surroy.

* AMIGA GAMES ж
swaps, Monkey Island, Conquests of
Camelot, Metal Mutant, Power Monger.

Make me an offer.
Tel Nick: 0242 582471

е A500 upgraded comlete set up, leeds, books,
everything complete with 40 top software titles,
plus 24° TV. £500 o.n.o. Ask for Greg,

е ARTISTS, musicians, wanted, | am presently
writing programs for PD, But | cannnot draw to
save my life. My musical talents are not bad, but
still not good enough, to help. Call me Andy
(0323) 26790.

© AMIGA A500 + 1/2 meg upgrade, TV
modulator, boxed. 2 joysticks, various software +
blank disks and boxes, mint condition. £275
ото. Phone David on (0440) 703196.

е AMIGA 500 1Mb, mint condition. £260. Lynx
system. £50 or atari STE. £250. Ай item in mint
condition. Tel: 081 571 1494 after брт

© AMIGA 500, almost new, bought in December,
still boxed, 1/2 meg upgrade, mouse, joystick and
software. A real bargain, at £400. Phone Lee on
0924 261941

© FOR SALE Amiga Digi View Gold 4.0 £65.
Amiga original boxed games. £5 each. X- Copy
Pro plus hardware. £15. Phone Ralph 0827
51738.

е GB ROUTE for Amiga, route planner, £25.
Also copyist apprentice, music scoring program.
£40 or both for just £55. Telephone Daniel on
0795 875898. North Kent area (Sheppey).

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PRICES INCLUDE DELIVERY & VAT

е CHEAT DISK six on two disks packed with hints

+ pokes. £3. Amiga secondhand software for sale.

Original, very good condition, eg impsons, 1Meg

game £10 etc. Cheque/SAE to Julian SMitn, 45
'aplecroft Crescent, Sheffield, 58 1DW.

© AMIGA daatascan Pro b«w hand scanner with
iw, leads, interface, manual, boxed, used once.
£140. New Daatamouse, 360 DPI, Amiga/Atari ST,
mat £30. П pay postage. 051 426 0138,

@ AMIGA 500 1.3 (one meg) Cumana drive,
Philips 8833 monitor Star LC10 colour printer,
mouse, joystick, magazines, over 250 disks. £700
ол.о. (0246) 200031 after Ват. Buyer collects.

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е WANTED your Amiga PD for mine. Also help
offered/wanted on DTP/Art and various other
packages. Write to Bryun Davies, 63 EWell Lane,
Tranmere, Birkenhead, 051 645 9019. or ring 051
645 0919.

е A500 half meg upgrade, external drive,
Thompson monitor, 1.3 WB manuals, Enhancer,
leads for printer and modem. Some software
£450. Phone Alan 0734 730128 evenings and
weekends.

@ AMIGA A500 boxed, some games £200
Phone Glyn 0396 83296 after 6.30pm.

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Ф FOR SALE А500 + 1/2 meg + 2nd drive + А590
hard drive with 2 meg + 10845 colour monitor
«s/w, mouse, joystick. Ring Stephen on 0924
402430 (eves) or 407919 (day) Also Superbase
Personally 2. £30.

© AMIGA 500 (1.3) joystick over £600 worth of
games, manual, inc spare disks, excellent
Condition. £450 o.n.o. Phone 0322 274238,

© WANTED for Amiga 2000, Multisync monitor.
Offer £150. A2320 display enhancer, offer£80, AT
Bridge Board., plus 51/4" drive. Offer £250. Phone
lan, Runcorn. (0928) 701222.

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SPRINGFIELD HOUSE

@ AMIGA digitising service, from video or
magazines, books, colour or b/w. Stills or
animations, will also do touching up. Name your
price, be reasonable. For more information send

SAE to: L 80 PD, 10 Horn Beam Green,
Pontetract, West Yorkshire, WF8 2DX. PD
available.

Ф AMIGA PD 70р per disk, which includes psp,
Catalogue disk, 70p with free PD including titles
v1.0 and Drip. Also original software, hardware,
books, magazines. Chris Jackman, 3 Albion
Terrace, Lexham Road, Litcham, Kings Lynn,
Norfolk, PE32 200

- 341 9023

84a Weston Park, Crouch End, London, N8 9PP
Callers welcome, but please phone first
Mail order service available

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ENHANCEMENTS - HARDWARE - SOFTWARE NEW
AND USED. REPAIR SERVICE AVAILABLE
APPLIED ENGINEERING AUTHORISED DEALER

© AMIGA 1500 CDL for siae. 5 meg RAM, 20
meg hard dirve, three 31/2" disk drives, one 51/4"
disk drive, , Linnet modem, lots of software, one
meg Chip RAM, and lots more. Tel : 0253 724607.
£1200 оло.

* AMIGA PD ж
wanted (particulary demos) by new Amiga
owner. Send disks to: Stephen Sherwin,

8 Roddens Gardens, Castleargh,

Belfast, BT5 7JJ.
All disks returned plus postage refunded.
Kegpins the spirit of PD alive.

© AMIGA А1500 CDLI, 5 meg, 20 meg, hard
drive, 2 internal, 2 external, 31/2 disk drives, 51.4
disk dirves, lots of extras, £1500 o.n.o. Tel: (0253)
724607, (Lytham St Annes, Lancs). Reason for
sale - upgrading.

е KCS PC power board, boxed as new with
latest s/w upgrade £170. Digi View Gold, as new.
£75. Video enhancer suit Amiga video APPS £75.
Phone lan on Doncaster 0302 329669 anytime.
© AMIGA PD swaps wanted, send disk for mine
by return. Also Nightbreed, Back To The Future Il,
£5 each, Kick Off Il, one meg only £12.50. Contact
Sime, 17 Estreham Road, Streatham Common,

— London, SW16 SNT.

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Ф AMIGA PD from 35р per disk, loads of monthly
competions to win PD of your choice. Disk
update every 2 months. Send SAE + disk: L & D
PD, 10 Horn Beam Green, Pontefract, West
Yorkshire, WF8 2DX.

@ AMIGA PD 80p per disk. SAE for list to M
Sutton, 8 Heol Cleddau, Waunarlwydd,
Swansea,SA5 4QF

е SWAP 386 SX PC with 42Mb HD 2 megs
RAM VGA colour monitor s/ware for AMiga 2000
with 40Mb + HD extra RAM s/ware XT BB.
Contact Mark 040377 545 for further details,

Ф AMIGA A500 + video digitiser, sound sampler,
1Meg 2nd drive, games, PD, magazines, books.
£500. Tel: 0825 765474.

е TWO DISKS FULL of virus free Amiga Clip art,
£1.50. Two disks, full of AMiga essential utilities,
£1.50 for Speedy reply, cheque to D. Doyle, 6
Cherry Tree Lane, North Walsham, Norfolk,
NR28 OHR.

Ф AMIGA 500 1 meg second dirve, desk, jotstick,
extras, loads of games, Elvira, Dragon Lair 2,
Hero Quest, Screen Gems, loads of PD, Duck
Tales, only £450. Call or ring after 2.30 Bently, 19
Pear Tree Walk, Wakefiled, WF2 OHW.

© AMIGA external drive, NEC mechanism,
excess to needs, only £30. Tel: (0272) 644934

е CD-ROM PLAYER with PC interface £175.
Various CD-ROMs - reference library £30;
Micosoft Bookshelf £20; US Atlas £25; World Atlas.
£25; Time Almanac £30; Bible Library £30.
Groliers Encyclopaedia £30; everything for £300.
(0344) 484035 (Bracknell).

€ PC ACCOUNTS software, for sale. Money
Manager Plus, Digita Home Accounts, £10 each.
Also many accounts, share tracking programs etc.
Phone Steve 081 540 6271 eves.

е PHILIPS CM8533 including cable, good
condition, but buyer must collect. £135. Contact
Mr Medford on 0925 755316. Cheshire area.

© SUPRA HARDSYNC hard card 42Mb, only four
months old, hardly used. £280. D Paint IIl, new
£42. Day by day diary programe. £9. All inc pep.
Call 0925 755316 for further details anyone got

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Over 700 Megs! of top quality PC Shareware & Public Domain
software. £1.50 (53), £2.00 (32) per full disk! Send SAE for FREE
menu driven catalogue to: Ian Tweedie, 50 Ottoline Drive, Troon,
Ayrshire, KA10 7AW or Tel: (0292) 313312

Superpic to sell

‘Mix System! That is, you can choose as many files as the disk can hold!

286 MOTHERBOARD, 640K,
(UPGRADEABLE TO 4M)
FULL SIZE CASE, 200 WATT
PSU AND KEYBOARD

е IBM PS/2 20Мпг disk, colour monitor, Epson
printer, mouse, plus SC5 DW4 Windows and
more. Bargain £600. All seen working, Phone
(025126) 2754.

е ZENITH IBM compatible desktop XT. 32Mb HD,
twin floppy, mono monitor, 1.2M rAM, DOS.
manuals, clock, £325 o.n.o. Call (0932) 859425
eves.

© 286 PC, 12MHz 2Mb RAM, 5.25" disk, 14" VGA
colour monitor, nearly new, £475. DRDOS 5.0
brand new, 3.5" disks, inc. all manuals etc. £35.
Tel: 081-903 4067.

€ SPECTRUM 128+ with leads, cassette
recorder, two joysticks, Light Gun 100« games,
many compilations, no pirated software £150 the
lot ono. Tel 0992 700765 after 7pm ask for Stan.

© AMSTRAD СРС 6128 computer, built in disk
drive, colour monitor, various software titles,
joystick, bargain £175 ono. For quick sale. Phone
‘Andy 0538 (Leek) 388031

© WANTED Atar 1050 disk drive, Atari 1027
printer, 850 interface unit, and utility software оп
disk/Rom. Can collect wihin 50 miles. Ring Julian
on Leabrooks 0773 604315 after 8pm.

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© WANTED: Olivetti version of MS-DOS 3.3A
must be original disks. Manuals not important
Offers to: Andy at 34 Geranium Walk, Colchester,
Essex, CO4 ЗОТ. Required for student's PC. 5.25"
preferred.

€ COMMODORE PC10, business package.
keyboard, twin drive 5-3 disk, mono monitor,
software inc. Type Tutor, Word proc, etc. All
immaculate, in original packing, £300 or exchange
for midi equipment. (0484) 541357.

© 40Mb SCSI Seagate hard drive and controller
card and cables £100. 40Mb MFM Seagate hard
drive, card, cables £100. 20Mb MFM Tandon hard
drive, little noisey, but works fine. Tel: (0494) +
533801.

Use your old C64 printer

£139
BULL ELECTRONICS

250 PORTLAND ROAD HOVE SUSSEX BN3 5QT
TELEPHONE ORDERS 0273 203500

E SUBJECT TO VAT PLUS 52.50 DELIVERY

Upgraded from C64 to PC or AMIGA ?

Our interface cable and software connects C64 peripherals to any IBM PC

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Ф WYSE 80286 AT compatible 1Mb RAM, 20Mb
hard disk, 5.25" & 3.5" floppy drives, Hercules
card & monitor, 102 key keyboard, 2 par, 2 ser,
£450, Also Panasonic 1081 printer £70. Steve
(0405) 815906 after 7pm or weekends,

е OLIVETTI M200, 720K disk drive, 20Mb hard
disk, excellent condition, boxed with original
manuals and disks, hard disk packed to
overtiowing with archived shareware, £600.
Contact David on 091-438 4684, after 6pm.

© ACORN ELECTRON 52, old but good software
titles on tape include Arcade Adventure
Education and ulilties. May sell separately. £35,
the lot. Phone Colin (071) 253 3698 weekdays.

Read your old disks

internal drive and mouse.

30 Megabyte hard drive

Philips CM8833 colour monitor

Monitor Master switch

External 1 Megabyte disk drive

Pandaal DAATAscan hand scanner (100-400dpi)

Panasonic KX-1081 printer

Timeworks DTP, MegaPaint II, Superbase Personal,

Neodesk (Brilliant!!), Flight Simulator II plus 3
scenery disks, loads of utilities, public domain, books and many top
class games. Original boxes - Excellent condition. Magazines include

| ST WORLD, ST Format and ATARI ST User all from 1986/7 onwards.

€ SPECTRUM +, interface 1, Microdrive,
Multiface 2 (for tape to drive copy), recorder,
Joystick, 60+ games. £70 0.7.0. Mid Sussex, 0342
810784.

ж BBCB x
Ram expansion, double 40/80T drive,
cassette recorder, software all manuals,
complete from new excellent condition.

© URGENTLY WANTED: Archimedes computer
with or without monitor for student I will pay cash
‘and collect from you. Telephone (0332) 261540,

A star bargain not to be missed,

© HARD DRIVE, 40Mb Miniscribe 8450 RLL,

Compatible or Amiga except the A1000 - Attached via parallel printer port.

€ Use MPS, DPS, VIC, Star, Brother, Seikosha and Citizen printers

€ Epson graphics output on dot-matrix printers ө C64 Not required
© 1541 file transfer program ө Fully MS-DOS/AmigaDos compatible
Standard "Ami-64-Link” £35.25 "CBM-PC-Link" £35.25 (State disk size)
Budget "Ami-64-Link” £23.50 Prices include VAT and delivery

* Budget locks Amiga during printing, ло performance lost with Standard

brand new and unused. Bargain at only £120. Tel
(0272) 644934 (Bristol)

© AMSTRAD CPC 6128 with colour monitor plus
over £200 games, software £300 ono. MGT 3.5"
800K disk drive £40, Rombox £15, Utopia £10.
Romdos £10, 2 in 1 £15, Maxidos £10. Jonathan
Hawkins, 155/2, RAF Halton, Aylesbury. Bucks
НР22 5PG.

Ф AMSTRAD CPC6128 built in D-drive, Protext,
Rodos, Toolbox, ali on Rom. Various games, over
10 blank disks, P.D. Cassette leads, magazines,
OCP Advanced Art Studio on disk. Only £210.
Phone 0245 320203.

at only £210 o.
Chris 0535 653893 а!
until 7.30pm.

© SPECTRUM SOFTWARE FOR SALE on tape.
Lots to choose from including many classics like
Skool Daze from only 75р. Send a s.a.o. to: 17
Thurnham Grove, Marton, Middlesbrough,
Cleveland, 757 ВРТ.

© SPECTRUM plus12BK for sale with Interface 1,
Interface 2, Microdrive and Serial 8056 80 column
printer, £200. Also Psion Organiser IXP,
Harvester Superchip and mains adapter, £100. All
in excellent condition. Call Dominic on 081 332

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е PC OWNERS! Would you like regular info on
shareware, software and hardware reviews.
specialist advice plus a bit of humour? Then get
the ultimate PC fanzine! 60р to: Offshoot
Publications, 8 St John Street, Coleford, Glos.

е 386PC EPSON AX-3 20MHz, 40Mb hard disk,
2 floppies, 4Mb RAM, (space for 16Mb) 1Mb.
SVGA, Mullisync monitor, Microsoft mouse, True
386DX - ideal Windows 3 platform, total RRP
£4,000 - asking just £1,100, 051-236 0480.

е 12 DISKS crammed with shareware & PD only
£15. Business, games, utils, etc. lan Tweedie, 50
Ottoline Drive, Troon, Ayrshire, КАТО 7AW ог
phone (0292) 313312.

е IBM COMPATIBLE computer, Olivetti M24 with
Olivetti DM100S dot matrix printer, 20Mb hard
disk, 640K RAM, 5.25" FDD, mono monitor and
keyboard, Software installed Smartware Il, Smart
Wordperfect, Autoroute and PC Tools. Миз! seli
£600. Telephone (0388) 766844.

е AMSTRAD 1640. Hard disk, mono monitor,
mint condition, only £410 for quick sale. Will
supply shareware programs, menu and one
month phone support free. Tel: 081-542 2071.

е ICP PC 512K RAM multiuser colour terminal,
10M Hard disk CCPM 3.1R Ricoh 1500 Q daisy
wheel, software (incl. 3.3 Wordstar) All cables
£600 or offer (0782) 636200.

York Electronic Research (0904) 610722
The Paddocks, Jockey Lane, Huntington, York Y03 9NE

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€ WANTED! EXPANDED MEMORY MANAGER
for my 386 Amstrad PC, such as EMM386 ог
QEMM. Will pay. For sale: High speed joystick
Card with dual inputs only £15. | also want general
utilities. Ring Dermot (0276) 76156.

* CAD PACKAGE *
PC compatible 286 with co-proc. 40Mb
HD colour VGA monitor, £650. Autocad

v.10 USA edition £600.
Tel: (0642) 764066.

е WYSE 386 25MHz 64K cache. 155Mb hard
drive. Both HD floppies, 4Mb RAM, 1/2 Mb video,
mouse, software, etc, Optional S.V.G.A. monitor,
£1,325. (0253) 891517.

е AMSTRAD PC1640 mono graphic display.
5.25" floppy, 20Mb hard disk, MS-DOS, Gem.
MS-Works, 1 word processor, spreadsheet,
database, Comms. Excellent condition £350
оло. Tel: (0372) 458655.

© PC SHAREWARE £1.25 a disk. Send SAE for
list to Kevin Martin, flat one, 28-34 New Road,
Portsmouth PO2 7RB.

е WANTED Archimedes or BBC computer will
pay reasonable price and will collect. Telephone
0332 830 140.

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© AMSTRAD 464 Groonscreen, loads of games, 500

also Light Pen with software. Top condition with all
manuals. Cost £400 +, accept £100 o:n.o. | have
upgraded to Amiga. Call John on (0232) 658939,

е SPECTUM + 3 disk drive, tape recorder. £400.
Software, joystick cost £600. Bargain £200. Phone
0327 60351,

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SuperLITE 386SX - 20 Notebook
£1399 plus VAT

* 80386SX - 20Mhz * 1Mb RAM expandable to 5Mb
* LIM EMS 4.0 support * 40Mb Hard Disk * 1.44Mb Floppy
drive * 83 Key Keyboard * LCD 640 x 480 VGA 16 grey
scale ext monitor port * One Parallel, 2 serial, AT Keyboard
port * 305x282x56mm 8lbs (3.6Kg) * Mains/rechargable
battery * MS-DOS 4.01 & carry case inc. * Options inc. car
adapter, ext. 5.25" FDD, battery pack & ext. battery charger
* 80387 co-processor

13 Camley Park Drive, Maidenhead,
(0628) 21535 Mobile: (0836) 321658 Fa

erks, SL6 6QE

0628) 773562

1005 Drip
1038 Jetman

1050 Pipeline

1054 Ballonacy

2020 Ghost Pool (1 Meg)
2021 The Run (1 Meg)
2055 Iraq Demo

2076 Bad Bird (1 Meg)

95p per disk postage & packaging free. Large selection of Amiga PD
including Games, Graphics, Animation, Utilities, Music, Demos
etc. T-BAG 1-54. Below is a small selection of titles available.

4078 Master Virus Killer 2.1

4070 Amibase 3.76

5002 Lumberjack song (2 disks)
5020 C64 Tunes

5036 Pink Floyd The Wall

6042 Budbrain 2

6043 Alcatraz Megademo 4 (3 disks)
6050 Wings Demo

Send SAE for list of titles or 50р for catalogue disk. Catalogue disk
free with orders of 5 or more disks. 1 free disk with every 10 ordered.

Cheques/postal orders made payable to South Lincs PD.
10 Linden Rise, Bourne, Lincs, PE10 9TD.
Tel: 0778 393470

е BBC B with Sanyo colour monitor, 5.25 inch,
double sided 40 Track disk drive, Watford 32K
Ram Expansion, Roms, and disks, and 3 inch disk
dirve. £350 o.n.o. Phone 061 707 4175 and ask for
Graham,

© COMMODORE 64K data cassette for sale £95.
Disk drive £89 Commodore 1570/71. 4 Mill Street.
Delves Lane, Consett, Co. Durham, ОН8 7AR.

е SPECTRUM 128K¢, including printer, paper,
manuals, 50+ games, joystick, interface, all leads,
у.с, bargain £65.00 plus postage. Details Steve
081-517 6772 evenings.

е CM64 disk drive, midi interface plus advanced
music system sequencer plus over 20 disks in box
£90. Tel: Frank (0236) 875317.

е CBM64C with cassette unit, 1351 mouse, Action
Replay Mk.VI, OCP Art + Advanced Art Studios,
Robocop 2 cartridge, Stealth Fighter, Wheels of
Fire, Hollywood Collection, Golden Axe + much
more, Magazines/tapes. Mint! All boxed £225,
(0522) 750668.

е C64C plus data recorder and £220 worth
games, lightgun, plus games, Simon's Basic
‘cartridge and extension, manuals, magazines, can
See working, £170 o.n.o. Phone (0322) 224278
betore Bpm.

© AMSTRAD CPC6128, colour monitor, dust
covers, immaculate condition, £140 o.n.o. Tel: Nim
on 081-889 0081.

© AMSTRAD CPC464, colour monitor, £120. No
Software, hence price. Telephone (0352) 720603
North Wales.

е BBC B disk drive, tape, Teletext adaptor,
Wordwise, printer utility ROM. Tape to disk ROM
issue 7 1.20S £££ games, disks, several books,
years of Micro Users, sideways ROM/RAM board,
‘excellent condition, £300. (0268) 767123 Essex.

© AMSTRAD CPC6182 with colour monitor.
Perfect working order, includes hundreds of
games, utilities and magazines. Also Multtace II,
tape recorder and leads. Worth almost £1,100, seli
or £345 or reasonable offer. Phone (0635)
201569 for details.

е C64, disk drive, two tape decks, back-up board.
All manuals, most boxes, complete input
magazine set in binders. Joystick, over 100 games
plus a computer desk. Buyer collects, £300 o.n.o.
Phone (0698) 832281 after 6pm.

© CPC6128 with colour monitor, 2nd disk drive,
Multilace, mouse, software, includes Stop Press,
Mini Office, Brunword, AMX Art, Bank Balanc
plus many games. This package is in near new
Condition £250. Phone Stevenage 364722.

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е SPECTRUM +3, loads of software on disk and
ape, inc. Assembler, manuals, leads and cassette.
recorder included £120. Tadley (0734) 814708.

© NEW C64 OWNER would like contacts for
games, programs on disks and cassette. Angela
Day, 41 Springmill Street, Bradford, West
Yorkshire, BD5 7ЕЕ.

е ATARI 130XE computer with 1050 disk drive,
XC12 data recorder, loads of tape and disk games,
£1000 of software, magazines, manuals, joystick,
all in excellent working order, absolute bargain
£100. Phone (0480) 61253 (Huntingdon) now!

Ф ATARI 130XE, 1050 disk drive with happy fitted
and no-notch modification, joystick, books,
magazines and seventy five disks. All with orignal
boxes. £150 0.1.0. plus p«p. Tel 0309 690091

€ SPECTRUM +3 £75 + postage. QL £60 +
postage. Spectrum + 48K £45 + postage. Spectrum
48K £35 + postage. Interface one, Microdrives,
also games budget, Microdrive cartridges £1.25
each. Mirace Microdriver, printer serial 8056.
Phone for list: Chorley (0257) 278464.

Ф ATARI 800XL joystick, data recorder, 68 games
(cassettes) £100 o.n.o. Telephone Newbury (0635)
34978 evenings/weekends.

е WANTED: for Comm C64 on disk, Word Writer
Mk 5 word processing program. Phone (0536)
745808 or write: 36 Lincoln Way, Corby, Northant,
ммвенс

Ф ATARI 2600 Console for slae! Amazing bargain
only £39 included with up to 15 cartridge
games, power supply and extras. Ring soon

betore it's sold. Ring Jon 081 891 380,
Г * SEGA MEGADRIVE»
Good condition with three cartridges £100.

Phone Glyn
Tel 0376 83296 after 6.30pm.

Ф ATARI LYNX with PSU, Comlynx and games,
(all boxed) plus headphones, two sets, batteriies
and recharger total worth £210, Will swap for
Megadrive (cash adjustment made) or sell for
£120 ono. Phone Peter on 0733 233314,

Ф SWAP latest Amiga. Software for any Gameboy
games. Send ASE for list to P Patel, 14 Gammage
Street, Dudley, West Midlands DY2 BXL.

© PC ENGINE, В games cards, 1 normal joypad,
1 autofire joypad, autofire joystick, PSU leads, TV
booster for better quality graphics £250 ono. Tel
0458 42518 or 45012 and ask for Ling.

е СВМЕ4С (still boxed) + TV/monitor + 1541 disk
drive + MPS801 printer + tape deck + mouse +
power cartridge + books + mags + Easy Script
word proc. + Mini Office 2 + £300 worth of games
оп tape, disk, cartridge, worth £700, sell for £320.
Tel: (0599) 4613.

© UK GAMEBOY with Tetris, headphones etc
plus double dragon and game light. Boxed and
under warranty worth £100. Sell for £70 ovno.
Phone 081 691 7456 after 6pm and ask for
Kimwen. Pang for Amiga £12.50.

© MEGADRIVE Gameboy and Lynx carts wanted
also hardware if price is right. Willing to pay up to.
£10. Lynx and Gameboy up to £14. Write to Alex,
4 Tarmount Lane, Shoreham, Sussex BN43 6DA.
Phone 0273 440491.

е NEW Sega Master System plus two pads and
Phaser Gun. Only £40, Phone evenings 0611 962
5361

© SEGA GAMEGEAR for sale plus Mickey
Mouse game. Perfect condition only £99! Original
packaging. Contact 0283 702368 after 7.30pm.

[] PLANTS & TREES I (Fruit, Veg, Tre

in PCX or IMG format

When ordering ple:
Make cheques

© WANTED Gameboy in good condition will pay
£30 ono. Write to Omar Aysha, c/o Dr. Ayst
Lodge Moor Hospital, Redmires Road, Shetti
$10 4LH. Or Tel 0742 630222 ext 6284 after 7pm.

€ WANT a Linnet V21, V23 modem? Get one
whear and get two Comms programs with it
Modems rrp is £180.Programs rrp is £70 . Yes its
worth £250 but it all yours for £110. Call Lee
Beckett, (0925) 33812.

€ WANTED Sega consoles working or not. Write
to Dev, 131 Limetree Avenue, Wymondham.
Norfolk, NR18 0£J. Ring 093587 339 (3-6pm).

NINTENDO GAMEBOY (UK pack) Tetris,
leads, etc. Also with Double Dragon and game
light, boxed and under warranty £70. Phone 081-
691 7456 after 6pm please ask for Kimwen.

© GAMEBOY GAMES, Turtles, Mario, D. Dragon
for swap with any other decent games + small
amount of cash if required "in Brighton area only"
Сай Nick (0273) 673639 or write: 7 Brede Close,
Brighton, BN2 SGR.

е ATARI Lynx for sale as new, includes В!
Lightning, Paperboy, SlimeWorld, Xenophot
Rampage, Electrocop, and Guantiet. Aslo mains
adaptro and Sony headphones, yours for only
£150 ono. Tel 091 385 3800.

CHUBBY BROWN

FLASH QUEEN k
DEFINITE DOCKLANDS
GROOVE IS IN THE HEART
HOLY SMOKE k

KYLIE MINOGUE (2 x
MADONNA (4 Disk Jut
NOT THE 9 O'CLOCK NEWS
SAMANTHA FOX 2

STAR TREK TRIVIA QUIZ

SmartArt Clip Art

11 ANIMALS I (Mammals, Fish, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, Monsters, Dinosaurs),
Plants, Flowers, Garden Tools,
hips, Planes, Tanks). [ ] CAPITAL (Gothic, Semi-outline drop caps).
[1 VARIOUS 1 (Astrological, Snowman, Pills, Coins, Pram, Playing Cards, House, Computer, Vase).
[1 SPORTS I (Football, Cricket, Basketball, Boxing, Gymnastics, Athletics, Karate, Baseball, Golf)
11 VARIOUS П (Frames, Borders, Special Occasions). [] MEDICINE & SCIENCE I (Human Body parts)
Г) MILITARY 1 (Tanks, Planes, Ships, Missiles, Helicopters, Soldiers in action, Weapons).
[] SPORTS П (Skier, Rugby, Polo, Volleyball, Hockey, Horseracing, Runners,
[] BUILDING & FURNITURE I (Houses, Castles, Chairs, Tables, Desks, Bedrooms, Bathrooms).
[] RELIGION I (Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, plus images from other religions).
11 ANIMALS II (Mammals, Fish, Birds, Insects, Dinosaurs, Monst
[] RELIGION П (Mainly Christian images.) [ ] BUSINESS I (Office/Business images).
Each subject matter disk contains between 40 to 60 high quality image:
most IBM PC compatible Desktop Publishing and other programs tha
The Smanart Cli
send a SAE for a complete list (list sent wit
44.95 each Апу 5: £19.95 Any 10: £39.95 Апу 15: £59.95
se state Format PC.
etc. payable to: R. BENNETT
PantherSoft (SmartArt), 2 Riverway Gardens, The Meadows,
Nottingham, NG2 3LL Tel: (0602) 860664

P Art Library contains over 1800 images,
h

© SUPER FAMICOM: Scart version complete with
two joypads, five games still under guarantee only
£260 ол.о. Tel: (0924) 494690 or write to: D
15 Back Knowl Road, Mirfield, West Yorkshire
WE14 95A for more details. Will deliver in W.
Yorks,

* SUPER FAMICOM x
with four games, Final Fight, Mario World,
Pilot Wings and F-Zero. Excellent
condition, only three months
old £250 o.n.o.
Ring (0276) 76156 anytime.

е PC ENGINE (Pal) with two joypads and
adaptor, 14 games inc. Parasol Stars, Legend of
Tonma, Don Doko Don, R-Type, Formation
Soccer, Tennis, etc... Worth £500» all boxed,
£250 оло. Тө: Andy (Rooms) (0772) 88851 attor
m.
е SEGA MASTER SYSTEM, 2 joypads, joystick,
2 built-in games, Hang-On and Maze, boxed, fairly

new £40 including postage. Contact Sufian on
021-471 1276 (Birmingham).

© SUPER FAMICOM (ог sale + 1 game £180 or
may swap. Phone (0572) 770122. Mr Clarke.

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all orders).

or IMG and disk size 3.5" or

е NINTENDO, still under guarantee, with Zapp
and six games including Duck Hunt, M
Super Mario 1 and 2, Life Force and Sri
and Rooll, Worth £250,
Simon on 0392 861062.

© SEGA Megadrive lor sale with joypad, power
base converter, 4 games worth £300, sell for £189.
опо. Phone Andrew 0732 455943.

@ ATARI Lynx PSU + 2 games, Guantlet, Road
Blasters and California Games. Boxed, vgc. Swap
for Spectrum +3 or £80,00. Will haggle. Buyer
collects. Psion organiser XP £50.00 boxed. Tel
Thanet 0843 602057,

9 GAMEBOY and 9 games for sale! Together
worth at least £230, will sell for £120. Tel 081
8575510 (evenings) ask for Michael. Will consider
offers.

© FAMICOM (Scart) with Darious twin and
Populous £200 ono, Also, Big run £20. Will split.
All boxed as new, Amiga also for sale with monitor
and other accessories £550. Phone 0322 863656
ask for Darren.

© MEGADRIVE (Pal and Scart) official UK version,
also take Japanese carts, Joypad, 6 games,
includes Strider, Thunder Force 3, Altered Beast,
‘Shadow Dancer, Super Shinobi, and Final Battle.
Boxed as new £170 ono. Tel 0272 644934.

All latest Amiga titles available - £1.00 per disk, postage and packaging free.
Over 800 titles available - games, demos, music & utilities,
Free membership with Ist purchase. Orders sent same day
Below is a small selection of titles available from our large stock.

We also supply sound tracker samples, T-Bag disks and our own disks and
demos. Send S.A.E. for catalogue or blank disk for disk magazine.

Please send to:- K.Larkin, X-Press PD, 12 Hathaway Court,
Cheriton Road,Gillingham, Kent, МЕВ OES. Tel: 0634 30638

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© ATARI Lynx with game £75, PC Engine brand
new £120, Game Gear, 2 games new £130.
(0749) 676909.

е SWAP two brand new hand held consoles,
Gameboy and Game Gear, never been opened
for PC Engine, GT, Plus games. Must include
Formation Football, Pacland or/and Devil Crush.
Phone (0634) 245 248

© GAMEBOY Gargoyles Quest, Boxed as new
£20 ono, or will exchange for other Game Boy
games. Write to George Styles, 39 Newiyn Road,
Walling, Kent DA16 3LH.

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Dept N, D.W. Stables, Unit 1, Johnson's Shoppi
11BQ ' Tel

1f you would like to possess a collection of fantastic graphics, animation and
music disks at low cost you are reading the right ad! I
comprehensive Atari ST Demo Libraries in Britain!

Blackpool

disks, Megademos, Super Sin;
more (it even contains a good P.D. game!)

‘Try these for example... (All disks D/S)

SPRITE ENGINE
SLAYTANIC CULT 7 (8 ori,

THE ULTIMATE GFA DEMO.

SEND ONLY £1.00 FOR MY LATEST ‘CATALOGUE DISK
of my FULL RANGE of the great 'PERSISTENCE OF VISION' pack:
БА Demos, Music Demos, Slideshows, Utilities and

CEBIT 90 (INcREDIBLE 3D GRAPHICS): ZUUL: BLACK WIZARDS
FAT BOTTOM GIRLS (QUEEN'): Ковосо 2 Demo: MR Spoons Demo (Not STE)
JELLYBEAN: RED DWARF: 'HEAR THE DRUMMER GET WICKED’: PRO-

inal tunes, each with ‘horror’ picture!)
STP SLIDESHOW 7... SCIENCE FICTION ...60 pics!

THE INVISIBLE MAN/REQUIEM (2 Disks)...superb Queen' sample!
DARK SIDE OF THE SPOON...Fantastic Megademo!

12 great screens done in pure GFA!
STE PRESENTATIONS... stunners for the STE!

Prices 1-5 disks £2.50 each. 6-10 disks £2.25 each. Over 10 disks £2.00 each.
Please make cheques, Postal orders payable to D.W. Stables.

е STAR LC200 colour 9 pin printer, sill under
guarantee, superb condition, will demonstrate with
Amiga lead/ribbons £175 (no offers). 0707 334289
or 0860 374783. Fax 0707 334289 anytime.

е STAR LC10 printer very good condition,
genuine reason for sale, only £80 inc P&P. Also
remote control car, unused only £60. For details
write to RK, 4B Currents Lane, Harwich, Essex,
CO123DE.

© AMSTRAD wide carriage printer DMP 4000,
200 GPS Epson compatible. Very good condition
£90. Tel Sheffield (0742) 401963.

ARI ST DEMO SPECIALIST'

g Centre 1 Bond Street,

ave one of the most

; which gives details

© AMSTRAD DMP 2000 printer, £60. Parallel
Interface. Needs new ribbon, Epson compatible
ribbon cable not included, was £159 new. Phone.
081 444 0709 (ovenings) Buyer collects.

€ EPSON FX800 9PIN printer, extremely fast,
ideal for all your orders for listing as it will chug
through a treo day! Only jocking, £130. Ring lan
0695 579106 after 6pm.

© STAR LC24 200 24PIN printer, with multiple
fonts, advanced paper handling Basicall brilliant
machine, £250. Phone lan on 0695 579106 after
6pm |

е OKI MICROLINE 182 Dot Matrix printer, brand
new in box. £120. 081 904 2545. Wembley.

€ WANTED printer, compatible with Amiga and
Amstrad 464 computers. Preferably Epson FX or
Star, in decent condition, must be fairly cheap,
VP to £60. Phone Andy on 0706 43363.
Rochdale area. Near Manchester. Anything
considered.

е DEC LASO PRINTER, manual , 2 spare
ribbons. Compact and fast (100CPS) but not
Epson/IBM compatible and Serial only, hence £25
оло. + postage. Mid Sussex. 0342 810784.

е NEC P7 PRINTER 132 colour 9PIN only. £130.
Ideal for business with moderate through put.
£130. Ring lan 0695 579106 after 6pm.

© WANTED auto sheet feeder for Citizen Swift
SPIN printer. Ring Eric on 0438 755098 Daytime.

© STAR LC10 printer iwth manual and box, near
mint condition with original ribbon. Phone Tony on.
0752 (Plymouth) 845938 price £100. (half meg
‘Amiga memory expansion £5 with printer).

Colour Laser Printing
at 300 x 300 dpi. No horizontal bands
or pale lines, just pure, solid colour.

IFF/HAM files from DPaint, Photon Paint, DigiPaint etc,
other file formats please phone.

£5.00 per file printed on A4

(please specify portrait or landscape)
Price includes VAT & U.K. postage.
Please make cheques payable to Studio 101.

Studio 101 Tel. 0827 280884
101 Sudeley, Dosthill, Tamworth B77 1JU
Visitors by appointment only.

е NEC JC1401 multi sync colour monitor (110v)
complete with transformer £50, boxed Compaq
Dos 3.3 £15, Windows £15, Mouse £10. Tel
evenings or weekends only 0895 445750,

© VGA monitor DELL 14" colour, 0.31 dot pitch,
exellent display quality, itle used. Complete with
'box/instructions £145, 081 668 9480 (Croydon).

© QUME 11/40 daisywheel printer, tractor feed,
and cables £40. Peter 081 449 0068 (daytime).

€ MONITOR Philips PRO 78M713 green screen.
As new £40 ono. Phone 081 533 7738 evenings
Can be seen working.

Ф RML 3802 CP.M computer with mono green
display £50. Also IBM EGA colour monitor for PC
with adaptor allowing yse with BBC Micro £60
Buyer collects. Contact Horley 0293 784720.

© LINNET Intelligent V21/V23 modem unwanted
gift А5232 leads and some ST comms is required.
Quick sale £55. Call after 8pm 051 2640480 ask
for lan.

е MODEM v21/v23 with autodial for sale,
includes leads and software, accept £60. Tel
(061) 339 4187.

е DATEL modem 33 9600 Buad, new and
unused £100 ono. Call Karl 0732 352227

е HAYES Smartmodem 9600+ Quad V Series,
the ultimate modem. Boxed with manuals, mint
condition. RRP £999.00, asking price £400.00
‘ono. Phone Danny on 081 471 0669.

16 bit Computers

19 Portree Drive, Rise Park, Nottingham.| VAT ала
NG5 5DT. Telephone (0602) 274369
SERIOUS AMIGA SOFTWARE

AT FRIVOLOUS PRICES

Al prices
include

Postage

Callers
Welcome

K-Roget.......£90.00| |Art DepartmentProfessional 6115)

Deluxe Paint 3

Small Business Accounts

pease Extra £76.50

Small Business Accounts
Cash £53.50

K-Comm? £20)

AMAS E68

Sterling Service Bulletin Board £73.50

Prodata £49

Video Пчег 3D.....689.50 | [Quarterback 632

The above is only
Quarterback Tools £44.75 | a small selection

Pro Video Plus..£153.50

Vista £51.50 | [Protext 5 £90

hardware,

|Amigavision.........676.50

GPTerm £50) DOS to Dos £94.50.

Software and
Peripherals.

© COMMODORE 64 modem and auto answer
Unit, £37 + needed software on disk. Also Turrican
2, £4. Write to Dan, 31 Eastern Avenue.
Gainsborough, Lincs, DN21 1RO.

* DATACHAT 1223 PC MODEM *
V23 and software £17. Mini Office.
Personal 51/2" £16.

0642 599026

е GOT AN HST! Well flog it me! Oh go on? Phone
Amiga Il BBS on 061 962 6377 after 6pm. ог
before брт on voice. TTFN.

© CPC 464 cassette gamos for sale. All originals,
Laser Squad, Golden Axe, Shadow o! the Beast,
Prince of Persia and more. Send SAE to 69 The
Mere, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancs OLE 9NH.

© ST SOFTWARE for sale including Killing Cloud,
Super Monaco GP, and F29 Retaliator, All are
originals and are boxed, Send SAE for list to 4 New
Road, West Turville, Aylesbury, Bucks HP22 5RE.

= WIN WIN WIN

WIN

© SHARP JC-534 (black) walkman, 3 band
graphic equalizer AM, FM, FMST, Radio bands,
Dolby N.R.X-bass, auto reverse, play, rew, мо,
stop buttons. Sell for £45. 12 months old, in
immaculate condition. Please phone (081)
6530642. Ask for Songyow.

WANTED advanced music system by Rainbird for
the Amstrad 6128 £15 paid if in good condition. Mr
A Clough, 12 Moorefield, Glidersome, 1527 7BW
or phone 0532 525534.

AMIGA games summer sale! Surplus games sold
cheap, or swap, sell from £3. Golf, Beasts, Wrath
Demond, Strider 2 TMNT, Driving games, lots
Sond SAE, 13 Bournville Lane, Birmingham, B30
2JY after брт, Tel 021 459 7576.

© AMIGA software, D Paint II, £10. Shadow Of
The Beast |, £10. Night Breed, Days О! Thunder,
Back To The Future Il, Rainbow Islands, Escape
From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, all £5
each. 0926 400085.

© BARGAIN! A full size key, midi compact
keyboard Casio CT470 with AC Adaptor, special
music stand, case, keyboard stand, sustain pedal
and dust covers, 1 year old. £200, Phone (081)
859 0386.

WIN WIN. WIN

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0898 -886-200

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е 1BM 51/4 disks, Wordstar v6, brand new,
unregistered, £175 inc pep. Indianna Jones, £10.
World Tour Golf, £10. Time and Majic, £10. Sign
Designer, £25. DTP Lite, £20. Cyrus Il. Chess £8.
Tel 0254 873048 after 6pm.

© AMAZING Atari ST X-rated disks. Send 50р a
blank disk with SAE or 50p for a catalogue. Send
£10, note for every 10 disks, stating what you
already have. Tahmur, 10 Grasmere Avenue,
London, SW19 3DX. 081 542 4386.

@ LINNET modem Pace V21/23 fully Hayes
compatible and still under warranty. Never used
and still boxed. Paied £160.00 will sell for £100.00
with Comms Software (K Comm) + Starter. Call
Paul on (0304) 821883.

е SEX. Got your attention didn't it! 2 meg demos
needed quickly, also female contacts to swap it
with. Send list to John, Flat 45, 2 Silvermere
Road, Sheldon, Birmingham, B26 3XA.

© AMSTRAD SM2400 good order with manual
£100. Phone Glynn (0376) 83296.

© WANTED Spectrum 48K software and hardwae,
anything considered, send lists and prices.
Anybody got Beetlequest by Level Nine? Anyone
playing a really great play by mail game? Write to
Phil, 47 Weyman Road, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8
104.

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FREE Membership as a special introductory offer.

LOG ON NOW TO FIND OUT MORE CALL 081-539 6763
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е SPECTRUM software for sale Over 70 games,
including Klax, Batman, Chase HO, New Zealand
Story, plus cassette recorder with lead and
powerplay cruiser joystick worth £275. Sell for £75
ото. Contact Neil on (081) 661 7808.

€ ST ORIGINALS for sale, inc Powermonger,
Curse О! The Azure Bonds, Legend Of Faerghail,
Battle Master, Yenomorph and Corporation. All
boxed with manuals, from £8 to £13. Phone Paul
on 0709 898780.

© AMIGA GAMES all boxed with manuals, Beast
1, Rocket Ranger, Carrier Command, North And
South, Defender Of The Crown £5. Pirates £10.,
and more. Swap possible. Phone Richard (071)
272 7504 evenings.

Ф PCW SOFTWARE wanted to swap, send list to
Bob, 11 Nettleford Road, Whalley Range,
Manchester 16 M16 BNL.

® AMSTRAD CPC Railway Simulations Signal
Box, RTC Birmincham RTC Kings Cross 1990
Power Box, Highlands Depot, Master Old Oak
Common Driving Network, Exeter Network,
Waterloo, Anglo Scot, Red Dragon, Talisman, Avon
Тане, £5.00 each 0446 721289.

е WANTED 288 - Mac link software and cable.
Must run under system 7. Day 081 745 3469
‘evenings 0734 696544.

COMPUTERS

AMIGA PACKS AT THEIR VERY BEST
TO ORDER YOURS JUST CALL MANDY, CAROL OR MELANIE

* A500 Computer Pack
* 1Mb Memory
* Super Joystick
* De-Luxe Paint Ill
* Lemmings
* The Simpsons
ж Captain Planet
Pack Price

£369.55

4. BEGINNERS PACK
ж A500 Computer Pack
* Wicked 9 game pack
* Quality Mousemat
* Pack of 10 disks
* Super Joystick
Pack Price

310.

ESSENTIAL COMPUTER

ACCESSORY PACK 1

* Competition Pro 5000 joystick RRP £14.95
* High quality solid perspex

computer dustcover
ж 20 31/2" DS/DD disks

with labels .......... Х
ж 40 capacity lockable disk box ....RRP £4.95
ж 31/2" disk drive cleaner kit.......... RRP £4.95

TOTAL RRP £52.75
PACK PRICE £29.95

SOFTWARE
BARGAINS £

ж Bart Simpson » "
ж Deluxe Paint IIl.. i *
* Captain Planet.. d *
* Lemmings в *

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* Naksha

SMASHED
RRP

PRICES

J 1. CARTOON CLASSICS РАСК |

ESSENTIAL COMPUTER
ACCESSORY PACK 2

| ж A500 Computer Pack

| x 10 Fantastic games

* Disk Box

* 10 Disks

* Mouse Mat

ж Dust Cover

| ж 512K Ram upgrade (fitted)
| Super Joystick
| Pack Price

5. HEROES PACK
| ж A500 Computer Pack

| ж Indiana Jones

ж Robocop

| ж Batman The Movie

| ж Ghostbusters II
Pack Price

2. ULTIMATE GAMES PACK

£369.

£310.

3. PUBLISHERS PACK
* A500 Computer Pack
ж Kindwords 2.0
ж Pagesetter 1.2
| * Headline Font Pack
lk Tutorial
| ж Artists Choice Art Pack

* Disk Box
£369.

| ж 10 Disks

Pack Price

6. STANDARD PACK
SEG Computer Pack
Modulator

1Mb Disk Drive
Mouse
d Synthesis

anual & Work Disks

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| * TV
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high quality

PACK PRICE £29.95

Complete VIDI
Amiga/ST Special
VIDI - Amiga or ST
VIDI - RGB Splitter
VIDI - RGB P.S.U.
VIDI - Chrome
E180 - VHS Tape

all for £149.95

раскі AMIGA PERIPHERAL PACKS pack 2

Megaboard Ram Expansion...

40 capacity lockable disk box

20
Music X V1.1

Music X Junior
Midi Interface

(In-thru-out-out)
with lead

£149.95
£79.95
£29,95

3.5' DS/DD disks with labels...

TOTAL RRP £79.85.
1992

COMMODORE
HARD DRIVES
A590 1/2 Meg.
A590 + 1Mb..
A590 + 2Mb...

1Mb and 2Mb
Upgrades fitted

AMIGA LANGUAGE LEARNING PACK ыы

The French Mistress, The German Master, The Spanish Tutor, The Italian Tutor All For
The famous Hugo 3 month cents eer course in either French, German, Spanish, Italian £29.95

For extra 512K memory on packs 4, 5, 6 (fitted) add only £24.95 (£28.95 witb clock)
Free 16 day botel accommodation vouchers witb every pack.

COMMODORE A501
SCOOP PURCHASE

* Official 512K Ram upgrade for A500
* Complete with battery backed clock
ж Enclosed in protective shielding
* Only approved upgrade not
invalidating warranty
* Official Commodore 1 year guarantee
RRP 299.99 scoop PRICE & 39.»

ORDER WHILST STOCKS LAST!

DISK DRIVE STARTER KIT
x PC880 3.5' High Quality Disk Drive
(Features anti-click, on/off, superslim design)
* Ten 3.5" DS/DD disks with labels ..RRP £9.99
ж 40 Capacity lockable disk box „RRP £9.99
* 3.5' Disk drive cleaner kit... „RRP £9.99

TOTAL RRP £
Starter Kit Price £59.99

+275

ЕВЕЕ

PC 880 3.5' disk drive ...
Megaboard Ram. Expansion.
40 capacity lockable disk box...
20 3.5" DS/DD disks with label:
3.5” disk drive cleaner kit .
TOTAL RRP £179.75

RP £89.95
RP £49.95

RRP £9.95

RP £19.95

„НАР £9.95

РАСК PRICE £99.95
1992

NEW PACKS FROM
ATARI

NEW! 520 STE DISCOVERY EXTRA PACK Want it fitted with
New pack from Atari comprising: extra Ram?
* Latest Atari STE computer |
ж 1Mbdrive x Digital stereo sound
* Dragons Breath ж Super Cycle ж Anarchy | 1 Mb RAM £329.99
* Indiana Jones
* Neochrome {ot 2 Mb RAM £359.99
* First Basic Кв 99 |
ж Аанзттш — ©

| 4 Mb RAM £439.99

NEW! 1040 STE ‘FAMILY CURRICULUM PACK' Е
* Latest Atari STE computer Want it fitted with
ж 1Mbdrive x 1Mb RAM ж Stereo sound extra Ram?

* Five modules of software covering:-
1) Play & Learn

BY PHONE

Simply call our head office quoting your
Access/Visa number on

2) Junior School 2 Mb RAM £429.99 M -F . 0480 403222
3) GCSE Revision on-fri
4) Business Computing £349» Sat 0480 403304

5) Creative Computing 4 Mb RAM £499.99

вура ша calling at
our St Neots or Hertford Shop

ST NEOTS HERTFORD

6 Priory Mall, 49 Railway St.
St Neots, Cambs Warren Place

RAM UPGRADES
520 STE 1Mb RAM upgrade (2 x 256K Simms)
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IT'S A CRACKER!

ж Ultimate Cartridge
ж 20 3 1/2" Disks
ж З 1/2" cleaning kit

all for £39.99

9 Pin Dot Matrix 144/34cps..............£149.95

LC200 Colour
9 Pin, 180/45 cps, 16K Buffer ......... 4199.95

Make cheques, building d drafts or
postal orders payable to:

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Please allow time for cheque clearance

DELIVERY (ок mainland, most areas)
Please add £6 courier delivery for orders over

£100, add £2 p&p for orders under.

LC24-200 Mono
24 Pin Dot Matrix, 200/67cps

LC24-200 Colour
24 Pin, 200/67 cps, 30K Buffer .......£289.95

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Disks
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interface with cables and advanced music system,
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827033,

© YOUR COMPUTER magazines, December 1982
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# WANTED ж
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0905 754151 For Ай Sofware Troffers
(0905 754127 Live and Kicking Dawn Raid

| Лл Logical BBS 0772623167 300-2400
London Слу Mag 0814687648 ү2\23239
| London Connexion 061-6671313 V21/2222b23
London Embassy 081366 1778 Hst
| London Май Centre 081-5341200 V21/2222b23
ш London Metropolis 081-519 1055. 21/22/2223
ge Loony Bin 0703 787489 ү2\23
a Mach ll BBS 0242 260 685 v21/20/22bs
Mactel Metro 081-5438017 М212222023
Mactel Phoenix 04736101398 — V21/22722b23
| Madness BBS 0603900947 У212222023
| Magic Castle BBS 021430376! М212222023
pz Magic Mushroom 0361 83641 V21/22/22b
Magnum 0274547006 М210222523
| Magrathea 0376 24402 V23v.
Malvern ВВ5Ѕ 0664 892904 upto 2400
Manor. 0980 863031 №21/22/2223
Marctel 081-346 7150 У21/23/23у.
Matrix 051-2550225 ү212222Ь23
Max 885 — V2I/V22N29bis N2AN32NADN42bis
9600/14K4/MNP and ГАРМ. Numbers as follow:
0905 52536 Alien Node
ШЕШ| 09057022 We've Got A Hot One Here
| 090558030 Throbnel Node
ji a. 090558810 So You Like Spam Node
090557112 Оту Lines Node
090556395 Amiga Node
| 0905 58042 Trotters Node

| Maximum 0905 429595
Mobs Mitcham iic 081:648 0018 ү2123
Medway 0634 280031 v21/22/22
| Мена 0443834179 у212222023
| MetNet Train System0482 473871/442251/449028
V20bisN23 and faster
| Micro Live 081-567 6500 үг!
| Micro Update. 081-877 1529 №21/22/2223
Microdeal 0726 65422 V21/221220/23
Microlog 0422 71921 V21/22/22823
Midget Gem. 0748 834836. 21123
Mind Boggles 0362762888 М2122/22003
Miridian 0273 588924 up to 2400.
Mininet 3 0642672813 V21/22/22b23
Miracom Support 0473 232540 Hst
Mirage 061-652 1242 V21/22/22b23
Miro I 0628810889. V2V/22/22623
Mirorwordiquest! 0883 844044 va.
Mission Impossible 0602 654329 на

ФнаЦ те“

803869X-20, 45Mb HDD
MultiSync 14" Colour
Mouse, 1.44, 2Mb Ram, Software

Mk Board 0908671289 ` 2102202023
Movie BBS 0703650037 V21/V22N22bis
Muti BBS 04148499043 \21/2222023
Му Litle Phoney 0793 849044

V21N22N22bis VS2/HST
Network 23 0274 482021 vv
New Wave 061-8995381 Угимгзмаанет.
Night Hawk 0329 45384 30012002400
Nite Life 071-976 6807 V2l/22722
No.1 BBS 081-958 1689 V21/22/22b
Noah BBS 0272572322 300-2400
Noth Wales BBS 0978 88372 V21/227225.
Northern Lights 0768773685 V22/22b
Norwich Onion BBS 0603 423305 \212222Ь23
Nova 0455 553371 V21122/22b
ода) 0816792583 \212222Ь23
Odyssey 0482 870919.
On The Beach 0273600996 V21/V22/V22bis HST

On-Line Entertainment Ltd
081-539 67638-N-1/V22/V22bis/V23

Open Access. 081-427 3974
Optix 0482 872294 Veti22/225/23
Palm Beach 09032859709 — V2V2222b23
The Paradise Club V21/V22/ V22bis/V23 081-871 4300
Pazaz Viewdata 0383620259 v2av
PC Access 071-508 0081: V2t/22/2223
PC-Amiga Link 0402384914 up to 2400
PC Forum 092233548 — V2V2222b23
PC Link 0375674046 V21N22N22bisV32
PC Serve Shop 0818642533 V21/22/22b23
РС Serve Sotinet 0895420164 21/22/2023
PC Serve Storehouse

0494728094 — — V2V22/20b23
PC-VAX Opus 081-800-3549 V21/2222023
PC/AmigaBBS 0602735119 \222%
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Pegasus 0905 755085

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Strange Brew! 081:8655038 22/22
Project BBS 03844017700 V21/2222b23 $уевз 0442381164 ` 900-14.4K (HST)
Prometheus 081907177 V2 Superbase User Group BBS
Proximity 0793480028 у212222,2З 081 339 0096 900-144K/HSTIVS2
Publishing Shop 0912615228 V21/22/200/23 System X 0904612934 2400
Pubic House 022.565 907 VaV2022
Purely PC 0232 645942 V222722h |
Pyroto Mountain 0895 59071 21/22/22 т |
TABBS 0533517615 үг12223
Tabbs 0225743797 Мейо??? 1
Taecomm 0994 6708 va
Quantum 0217070681 V21N22V22bis Тае Retreat 08344562 vaze |
Quasar 0846 699067 aire Таиф 077227236 vat
Trinity | 0992410210 V21/22/22023
R Trinity 0367 22764 V21/22/22b23
Tug il 0905775191 V21/22/220/23
Random Access. 0282 817379. Twilight Zone. 081-788 0884 V21/22/22b/23
V2iN22N22biS@600HSTIVI2- TwightZonel 071-608 1485 на
Realy Interesting 0582414991
Reflex BBS 0703685527 | V2lo222b23
Regency BBS 054233050 у2122:23
Road Runner 061-4834105 © V21/2222b23 Unauthorised Access UK |
Royaink Uk 086268807 уз\222% 0636 708063 120072400
SAC BBS 0M2280885 21/20/2022 Valente'SBBS 071-978 2078 на
Sanctuary 0329 236612 VOMVZ2N2ZSMST Vector System 032945824 Hst
Scabbs 0909 479080 upto 2400 Viking East Anglia 0255509048 үзү
Scary Monster 0734320297 Hst Vilage 0814642516 \ү21222223
The Schizophrenic Wolf Village Fayre 081-841 5971 v23
0772456525 VOMVZ2NZ2bs Voyager BBS 061-7259580 V21/22/220/23
ScotishOpus 041-8807063 V21/22122b23
Scotish Widcat — 0674671141 V21/207200/28
Sentinel Bb 0628 781429 V21/22/220/23 w
SES Databoard 0822630240 V2IN22V22s Wals Board 0506 440582 V21/V22V22bis/V23
Sherwood Forest 0602397113 V21/22/20b/23 WestNofok 0553761290 1200/2400
ShotCicut 0273462067 Hst While Lightining 062537250. \222%
Sigma V 0873307738 Waard 0703702427 — upo 2400/MNP
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дави 0494 778425 у1222Ж 0900745397 үд\222%23
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Tel/Fax: 031 669 7100 Mobile: 0831 401065

AMIGA 500

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Also Deluxe Paint III Animation
Software

ONLY £374.00

AMIGA C.D.T.V.

CBM's NEW CD ROM AMIGA
The new C.D.T.V. system can play any
standard Audio CD as well as Amiga CDs,
C.D.T., Remote Control, Welcome Disk,
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£579.00

AMIGA 1500 PACK

Amiga 1500 (1Mb), Mouse, The Works
Platinum, Deluxe Paint III, Battle
Chess, Their Finest Hour, Sim City +
Terrain Editor, Populous + Promised
Lands and Get The Most Out Of Your
Amiga (Book)

ONLY £679.00

AMIGA A590 20Mb HARD DRIVE..£285.00
256 x 4 DRam FOR ABOVE (16 2Mb)..£6.00
1084 COLOUR STEREO MONITOR..£260.00
j" AMIGA DISK DRIVE. £65.00
3.5" CUMANA DISK DRIVE..£69.00
3.5" CUMANA AMIGA DRIVE,
PREDATOR 2, HARD DRIVIN AND
LICENCE TO KILL..£79.00
0,5Mb EXPANSION. £30.00
0.5МЬ EXPANSION WITH CLOCK. 39.00

ATARI 520ST-E

DISCOVERY XTRA PACK
Atari 520 ST-E, Mouse, Anarchy,
Dragons Breath, Indiana Jones - Last
Crusade, Super Cycle, Neochrome, ST
Tour, First Basic and Atari Joystick

ONLY £309.00

ATARI 52057 DISCOVERY PACK..£259,00
ATARI 1040 ST-E FAMILY
CURRICULUM PACK..£369.00
ATARI SC1224 COL MONITOR..£280.00
ATARI SM124 MONO MONITOR..£145.00
ATARI LYNX..£75.00
SEGA MASTER ЅҮЅТЕМ. 59.00)
SEGA MASTER SYSTEM PLUS..£79.00
SEGA MEGA DRIVE..£14.00

SEGA GAME GEAR..£95.00

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Making the Difference

Now - Tue 31 Dec
At the Science Museum, Kensington,
London. For further information
telephone: 071-938 8080.

All Formats Computer Fair Sat 7 Sept
Royal Horticultural Hall, London. Info:
0225 868100.

PLASA Light & Sound Show
Sun 8 - Wed 11 Sept
At Olympia, London. Info: 071-370 8174.

EEMA Thu 12 - Fri 13 Sept
European Electronic Mail Association

Autumn Conference at the Hotel
Thermal, Budapest, Hungary. Info:
+44386 793 028.

Leeds Computer Extravaganza

Fri 13 - Sun 15 Sept
At the New Exhibition Centre, Leeds
University. Info: 0532 677 657.

All Formats Computer Fair

Sat 14 Sept
National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull.
Info: 0225 868100

CP/M & MSDOS User's Group

Sat 14 Sept
At the Spring Lodge Community Centre
in Witham. Info: 0376 517496.

Business Computing '91

Tue 17 – Fri 20 Sept
At the Earls Court Exhibition Centre,
London. Info: 071-486 1951.

International Police Exhibition and
Conference '91

Tue 17 - Thu 19 Sept
At London's Barbican Exhibition Centre.
Info: 081-995 7700.

The Works of Charles Babbage

Thu 19 Sept
Lecture at the King Edward VI College,
Totnes, Devon at 14.15. Info: 0803
863821

All Formats Computer Fair

Sun 22 Sept
At City Hall, Glasgow. Info: 0225
868100.
Milcomp '91

Tue 24 - Thu 26 Sept
Conference on computers in the military
environment, being held at Wembly
Conference Centre, London. Info: 0892
544027.

International PC Security Conference
Tue 1 - Thu 3 October
Covering viruses, piracy, hacking,
access control, back-up, data recovery
and computer law. Info: 0256 381583.

HAT'S ON GUIDE

All Formats Computer Fair

Sun 6 Oct
At The Brunel Centre, Bristol. Info: 0225
868100.

Effective Management of Information
Technology Security Conference

Mon 7 - Tue 8 Oct
At the Forte Crest Regents Park Hotel,
London. Info: 071-587 1117.

Computers Count Tue 8 - Thu 10 Oct
At Totnes Civic Hall. Info: 0803 863821.

Business Communications Awards
Thu 10 October
At the Savoy Hotel. Info: 0800 800 847.

Charles Babbage's Impact on Modern
Computing Wed 23 Oct
At the Science Museum, London at
17.30. Info: 071-938 8196.

Image Processing '91
Tue 29 - Thu 31 Oct
At Birmingham NEC. Info: 081-868 4466.

System Builder Wed 30 – Thu 31 Oct
At Sandown Exhibition Centre, Esher,
Surrey. Info: 0822 614671.

Computer Animation Festival

Thu 31 October - Fri 1 November
To accomapny the Computer Graphics
'91 Conference, this festival will be
taking place at the Marble Arch Odeon.
(Rescheduled from 5 November owing
to a screening of the epic film
Spartacus). Info: 081-868 4466.

Computer Graphics '91

Tue 5 - Thu 7 Nov
At the Alexandra Palace, London. Topics
include computer animation, Virtual
Reality and visualisation. Info: 081-868
4466.
Desktop Cad'91 Tue 5- Thu 7 Nov
As above.

Open Systems 91 Мей 6 - Fri 8 Nov
Olympia, London. Info: 0784 472200.

All Micro Show and Radio Rally
Sat 9 Nov
Bingley Hall, Stafford. Info: 0473 272002.

Computers in the City

Tue 12 - Thu 14 Nov
At the Barbican Centre, London. Info:
081 868 4466.

World of Commodore Show

Fri 15 – Sun 17 Nov
A show for all things Commodore, ,
presented by the Amiga Format
team. At Earls Court, London. Info:
0462 420785.

The Next Generation: Computing
with Light Thu 21 Nov
Lecture at the King Edward VI
College, Totnes. Info 0803 863821.

Vision and Reality

Thu 28 - Fri 29 Nov
A conference on multimedia at
Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Info: +31 (0)70 3560666. IM

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THOUSANDS OF BARGAINS FOR ALL.

For 8, 16 & 32 Bit Computers
+ Games Consoles.
To be held at
THE OAKWOOD HALLS,
ROCHESTER, KENT
On Sunday 29th September 1991.
10am to 4.30pm.
Only £3.00 admission

KENTS LARGEST EVER
COMPUTER FAIR

FOR ALL COMPUTER USERS

STALL HOLDERS @ A FEW STALLS STILL AVAILABLE
STALL HOLDERS @ STALLS ONLY £55.00 + VAT.
DISCOUNTS FOR MULTIPLES
STALL HOLDERS @ NEXT SHOWS ARE:
KENT 29th SEPTEMBER, BRIGHTON 20th OCTOBER,
SOUTHAMPTON 3rd NOVEMBER.

THE UK'S TOP DISCOUNT DEALERS WILL BE
PRESENT, SELLING SUCH GOODS AS:

е New and used systems e Spare Parts e D.I.Y. Parts e Memory
Upgrade e Simms e Sipps e D-Rams e Boards e Disk Drives e Hard
Drives e Mice e Books e Blank Disks e Joysticks e Printers e Faxes

е Keyboards e Monitors e Public Domain/Shareware e Disk Boxes
е Disk Labels e VGA Cards e Cables e PC Motherboards e 286/386SX
е 386DX e 486 e Controller Cards e Mouse Mats e

JUST SOME OF THE MACHINES & SOFTWARE CATERED FOR:
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е Spectrum e C64 e Sega Megadrive & Master System e Nintendo e

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Show Time from 10am to 4.30pm.
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console with joystick &
er eer,
isole 2 joystick &

game... 550
Discovery STFM 8 titles ..,.......8215
Turbo STE Joy/12 titles £265
Family 1040 8 titles..........£305
(educational pack)

Lynx Game System 474
Portfolio £156
Pro 24 Music Pack ...from £359.74

C64 Intelligence Pack

Amiga 500.

Screen Gems нее 306):
Class 90's/1st Step...... £390
10 Astro Game Pack 437
Amiga 1500 Pack £546
Amiga 2000 Computer ..4897
Amiga 3000 from £1625

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BUSINESS
GE

Goldstar 286, 40HD, IMb
Colour VGA, Software, 1 MT

5820 While stocks last

РОКТАВПГ
Hyundai 173 286 1МЬ RAM
20Mb HD. Including Canon

MJ10e, Battery Charg
carry case,

4799 Limited Stock

Everex E series

286/16 40HD Col 1697
386/20 40HD Col

Apricot XE

286 47 HD

286/12 1.2 FDD, 1 Mb RAM,

40Mb HD, Colour VGA £797.
120Mb HD, as above £972
386/20, 1Mb RAM,

40Mb HD, Super VGA Col......£1299
As above, 120Mb 110. -,...41494
Mitac PCs supplied with Microsoft
Windows 3 & Mouse ЕО.С.

B.

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Mega Drive.........
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Master Sys!

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Wide variety of Games Available

DISKS
Unbranded ea 10 100 250
350k DSDD 40р 30р 25р
720k DSDD 50р 40р 32р
12МЬ DSHD б5р 55р 45р
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FREE Labels & Disk Boxes

LASERS
Brother НЇА...,......................&719
Brother HLÁPS 41189
Brother HL8E 4989
Brother HL8V 41079
Brother HL8PS. 41489
Canon LPB4 +544095
Canon LPBIII ................ £1097
Canon LPSIIIT....... 41487
ИР ЫШ... £1000
HP УШ D..... 51609
Panasonic КХР4420.............4675
Panasonic KXP4450i .. £1100
Panasonic KXP4455...........£1650
«MT904.7...5. бааласа OOD
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3030D 386, 16Mhz

40Mb, HD, VGA....... 2.41499
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3025D 386SX Notebook

20Mb, VGA,............ 41499
As Above + 40Mb HD .......£1629

Mitac Portables supplied
with Microsoft Works
NB includes Windows 3

AMSTRAD

GEM 3. 12MD 14С0 14HR
3086SD 421 499 578
3086DD 460 538 617
3086HD 617 538 774
3286SD 499 578 656
3286HD40 734 813 891
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PCW8512 tS 5439
PCW9512 и ХА
ALT386 €——Á— L OO
ALT286 £1274

PORTABLES

1100058;
T1000XE
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T2100XI 251130
T1200XE 40 „£1256
T2000SX 20..... 2081669
T3100e 20.......... £1256
Т3100е 40..... 1511
T3200SX 40 T ...42264
T3200CSX 44217
Hyundai 286. £625,
Hyundai 386............. £1199
(with free carry case &

file t/fer software)
Commodore CLT.
Phillips PCL101 ......
Phillips PCL203

PRINTER

MTS]... e. 5109
МВ? слона 4259
Citizen 1200. 4110
LX400. et 5135
LX850....... e 45199
FX1080. "A Я 395
10400 ec &203
‚злее, ПИКИ etiem 4729
Рапазопк 1081 4122
Рапазопк 1123 5178
Panasonic 1180 $ «£138

Modem F

Worldport 9600....................&585
Worldport 2496 ........ 4375
Worldport 2400

Worldport 24

Acoustic Coupler

BROTHER PORTABL
BUBBLEJET £178
(Identical as below)
CANON ВПОЕ
£205

OF ARE

Autoroute Р1из.....................&202
Corel Draw 2.0....... 8299
Framework III ....... 4348
Harvard Graphics 4279
Laplink Ш............. &79
Lotus Agenda 4259
Lotus Works £105
Lotus 123 à £315
Norton Utilities 4108
Microsoft Works 120
MS Quick BASIC „559
Paradox 386 £347
PC Tools V6 9489
Smartware П A414
Superbase 4 V1.2 4349
Supercale 5 79
Wordperfect 5.1 5279
Wordstar V6 £229
Windows 3.0...... YE]
Word Window 4209

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TAPE UNITS
MICE UPS TONERS
CARTRIDGES
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SPECIAL
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Ricoh 6000 Postscript laser
printer 5899
including free Ricoh camera
worth over 4100. Includes
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Limited stock available

All prices exclude delivery and
V.A.T. All good U.K. source
with Manufacturers ranty.

Cash, Cheque, Credit Card with

order. Tenders welcome.
Goods offered subject to
being unsold.

Goods not offered on trial basis.

f the Amiga's Command Line
| Interface (CLI) leaves you confused

and frustrated, then you'll no doubt be
pleased to hear about a new utility which
claims to take the drudgery out of the
Amiga's DOS command line interface.

DiskMaster 2 completely replaces
the CLI with a fast and efficient Intuition-
based front end that allows you to carry
out all those tasks that would have
previously have been the domain of CLI
hackers only.

DiskMaster 2 is a disk utility
program that combines the most used
CLI disk commands in an easy to use
point and click mouse environment. It
can also take advantage of external
programs, text editors, file editors,
picture or animation viewing utilities and
alot more besides.

Communication with other programs
is possible thanks to a built-in ARexx
port which allows DiskMaster 2 to
execute complex ARexx scripts, allowing
complex disk operations to be carried out
automatically.

DiskMaster 2 is very similar to Timm
Martin's freely distributable SID utility,
although it's not quite as easy to use.
Not only that, it's also a little daunting at
first. However, continued use reaps
rewards and you'll soon discover that
DiskMaster 2 is a powerful and very
capable disk management system.
Phone HB Marketing on 0753
686000.

THE NEED FOR SPEED
Bytes and Pieces has established itself
as one of the market-leading suppliers of
accelerator cards for the Amiga. The
CSA 68030 card is its mainstay, fitting
both the B2000/1500 and the A500.

Due out within the next eight weeks
is CSA's newest processor card which
lakes advantage of the latest 68040 chip
from Motorola.

According to Bytes and Pieces,
there are already '040 cards available for

the Amiga but these use beta test
versions of the '040 and not final release
chips.

Motorola supposedly flooded the
market with cheap beta test '040 chips
which do not contain the final release
instruction set. As а result,
incompatibilities may occur. Not only
that, but you really need Kickstart 2.0
installed inside your system to take full
advantage of the '040's speed. Without
this, the '040 will only run at a fraction of
its true power.

The new Magnum '040 from CSA
has been specifically designed for the
B2000/1500 Amiga machines (revision
6.2 machines) The unit comes with
three interfaces on board which link
directly into the '040 bus. The first is a
super-fast SCSI interface which offers
read speeds of 3.5Mb per second.
There's also a serial and a parallel port.
Once again, both of these connectors
link directly into the '040, allowing for
blisteringly fast communication between
the Amiga and external devices.

The board will come as standard
with 5Mb of RAM which can be
expanded to a massive 64Mb. 1Mb of
that 5Mb is SRAM which is used to dump
Kickstart 2.0 into 32-bit RAM with further
SRAM left available for user
customisation.

CSA has designed the Magnum
"040 with Video Toaster and raytracing
users in mind. With this board installed
inside your machine waiting for ray
traced images to appear will become a
thing of the past. The original '030 card
from CSA improved the Amiga's
performance by a factor of 8.5, but this
new card increases the performance of a
B2000/1500 Бу over 40 times!
Sounds wonderful doesn't it?

| would love to own one, as l'm sure
you would, but there's one big problem —
the price. Unfortunately for us poor little
people, it looks like the CSA Magnum
'040 is going to be a product for the

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frontend to achieve tasks such as file transfers and disk copying with ease

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€ Appreciate the finer things in

Marketing's Connoisseur Collection

@ Turbo charge your Amiga with CSA's new
Magnum '040 accelerator card

@ Where to buy A3000 power for under £2,000

CLASSICAL COLLECTION

The prize for the naffest idea g
of the week has to go to НВ P
Marketing which has released —
а number of digitised art
packs called the Connoisseur
Collection.

Each disk contains
digitised images of famous
works of art. They are
designed specially for
teaching art and design,
desktop publishing, home
videos and business
presentations.

The images themselves
have been digitised mainly in
HAM interlace mode, giving
4096 colours. For even better
resolution, others are
digitised in high resolution
with 16 colours and plenty of
dithering. The quality of the
images is pretty stunning, but
I'm still not entirely convinced
‘that anyone would want to
buy such art packs,

Clip art is very popular
among DTP people, but who
is actually going to want to

spend out money on a digitised Renoir or Van Gogh? HB certainly seems

someone will want to.

тт If you feel like a little art appreciation on your Amiga, then pho! > HB и arketing on

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professionals only. Coming in at £2,500,
the Magnum 1040 isn't going to be
appearing іп anyone's Christmas
stocking this year.

Oh well, we can but drool.
Ту If you are feeling loaded, then phone
Bytes and Pieces on 0253 795376.

A3000 POWER
ON THE CHEAP
Staying at Bytes & Pieces, it's just
released a new Amiga-based system
that offers A3000-like performance at a
considerably lower price. For just £2000
you get an Amiga based on a revision 6A
2000 which is placed inside Bytes &
Pieces’ own metal casing with an

external keyboard.

Inside the shell is a CSA 68030 card
running at 25 or 33MHz with a co-
processor option available which can
speed certain operations up to a
whacking 50MHz. It comes as standard
with 2Mb of 32-bit RAM (which can be
expanded to 8Mb) of which 512k which
is set aside as SRAM for storing the
Amiga's operating system. By placing
the OS in 32-bit RAM, system operations
are speeded up considerably.

Also installed as standard is a
MicroWay flicker fixer which, when used
in conjunction with a multisync monitor,
reduces the amount of interlace flicker
when the machine is used in high

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* That enigmatic smile arrives on the Amiga —
thanks to HB Marketing’s Connoisseur Collection

resolution. For storing data, the unit also
comes with a 52Mb Quantum hard drive
and 2Mb of 16-bit chip RAM

For anyone who is after a high
performance Amiga without having to
shell out for ап A3000, the Bytes &
Pieces system certainly seems like a
good bet.
T Find out more from them by phoning
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DEVELOPERS
CONFERENCE

If you're a developer, then you may
well be interested in a developers
conference which is being organised in
this country by ASAP, the company
behind such products as the MiniGen
genlock and AmDrive hard disk
system.

The conference, which is planned
for 22 November, is to be held in
Buckston, Derbyshire. ASAP needs as
much support as possible, so contact
Gordon Shields and pledge your
allegiance.
тх For further information, telephone
0724 280222.

Iwill be attending, so | hope to
meet many of you there.

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THIS WEEK

аа ee а ee iD ee, ey

* "Ladies and gentlemen, we are now coming into land. On your left you
will notice the rolling paddy fields and on your right several large tanks

hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Thank you for flying Air MiG-29M
SuperFulcrum, and goodbye.”

ccording to Domark, MiG-29
A Fulcrum has earned the company

£1,250,000 in sales since its
January launch. Obviously Domark's not
content with this, as it is soon to release
MIG-29M SuperFulcrum for the ST, a
flight sim featuring the all-new Soviet
fighter aircraft (as revealed first in
Express way back in issue 131)

The aircraft includes many more
futuristic details than its predecessor:

@ Its engine power, manoeuvrability
and aerodynamics have all been
improved, thanks to a redesigned
body.

@ The analogue-style instruments in
the cockpit have been replaced with
a video display and an enhanced
HUD (Head Up Display)

е The game features a different
scenario

Rather than flying many separate
missions, you take part in a large scale
war campaign set in a friendly South
American country which is being
menaced by a hostile neighbour (North
America, perhaps?). This means that
instead of having a set order in which
you must carry out your tasks you have
to vary your tactics according to your
situation.

The graphics have undergone
improvements. Now there are fractal
landscapes with plenty of terrain detail, a
shaded horizon and 3-D objects for the
buildings, bridges, trains and tanks. The
enemy is more intelligent this time
around; it'll use AWACS spy planes, anti-
aircraft tanks, SAM sites and helicopter
gunships to blow you out of the sky.

MiG-29 SuperFulcrum is due at the
end of the month, priced at a staggering
£39.99 (though if you think that's bad,
just remember that PC owners have to

pay £451).

A CLASSIC RETURNS

Also on its way is Super Space Invaders.
It seems incredible but it was 13 years
ago that Space Invaders first showed its
bulky self in pubs and arcades up and
down the country, bringing video games
into the lives of the masses (that's you
and me). Domark is intent on bringing
the game back, but bigger, better and
with a much longer title

Super Space Invaders borrows
elements from Phoenix, Gorf and
Galaxian. As well as the usual plodding
rows of aliens, there'll be multi-way
scrolling playfields, waves of aliens,
huge end-of-level guardians and bonus
levels, together with power-ups such as
a HyperLaser and Time Stop feature,
which freezes everything but you.

SSI (as it's not known) is on course
for release in October, priced £24.99.
Pity they couldn't have kept the old
prices, too.

1 Domark is on 081 780 2224.

BACK IN 1992...
Everyone's had the feeling, at one time
or another, that the music charts are

Е in

— ' livens up
seller

Ris major ге

PREDICTABLE FARE
AT THE ATARI FAIR

This year's Atari Fair at Dusseldorf
presented no real surprises. The TT and
the Mega STE were well to the fore, with
the main stand featuring 20 partially
networked machines and TT systems
running the Unix operating system,

The STPad (or whatever Atari has
changed its name to this week), the ST-
compatible ‘notebook’ on whose screen
you can write just as you would on a
piece of paper, was being shown off.

There was also a complete
demonstration of how a printer-ready
copy of a magazine is put together, using
the DTP systems available for the ST
(Calamus in particular, the show being
German). It took the process from
original layouts to four-colour
‘separations using a Linotype/Hell Pre-
Press System - a similar machine to the
one on which all Future Publishing's
magazines are produced.

Possibly the most interesting item
was composer Ratko Delorko's
performance of excerpts from the world’s
first electronically-controlled opera,

Die Ey. Delorko uses his ST and the

sequencing package Notator to feed the
music for his opera to a synthetic sound
generator, which in turn is transferred to

rigged, but few people would argue that
the same applies to the software charts.

After all, there is much less vested
interest in the sale of software than there
is in the sale of singles or albums. But
charts are at the best of times only a
rough indicator of the nation's current
tastes and occasionally something goes
awry with ridiculous effects.

For instance, in a recent Gallup
chart of full-price software for the ST,
Railroad Tycoon and Manchester United
Europe were both shown as being in the
top twenty. This must have come as a
surprise to Microprose and Krisalis, the
games’ respective publishers, as neither
game had yet been released; indeed, the

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO TURRICAN 2

А handy tip for Turrican 2,
from Rainbow Arts.

Enter the music menu
by pressing Space at the
title screen. Select the first
option, Intro Sounds/Music,
and type 42.

Incidentally, did you
know Turrican 2 contains a
intro sequence? Let the
title sequence, which
presents the various
weapons, run through
twice. The intro sequence
will then load.

* Turrican 2 - It actually contains a title
sequence but you need to know where to look

54 *NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS * 14 SEPTEMBER 1991

|4

* Atari was keen to show off its
much heralded notebook at the
German show

the resonance board of a grand piano by
means of the Audio Forte System, from
the German company Schimmel.

He then conducts the singers and
accompanies them on the grand piano,
As a system, it sounds convoluted and
unnecessary, but it does show Just what
can be achieved with an ST, and perhaps
even points the way for future large-scale
performances,

ST version of Railroad Tycoon is still
being completed.

After some umming and ahhing, the
companies gave the explanation that the
barcodes on the PC version of the
games were being confused for the ST
version, and thus the sales were clocking
up. This explanation is similar to that
given by CDS when Steve Davis’ World
Snooker mysteriously appeared in the
full-price chart when it was being sold for
a budget price.

These explanations are probably
taken to be reasonable by most ST
owners. Nevertheless, there аге
undoubtedly other people who wonder if
there isn't more behind these slip-ups
than meets the eye, perhaps involving
corruption in high(ish) places. | do not, of
course, number myself among this group
(remember, libel is a serious charge)

If there is nothing more behind
these anomalies than faulty barcodes,
surely the barcode system, ín whichever
form it's used, should be scrutinised and
the necessary improvements made to it.
If the software companies themselves
don't know when something is wrong,
how are we to know that any of the
games in the charts belong there at all?

Ed Ricketts

Ed Ricketts is games reviewer on ST
Format, the biggest and best magazine
dedicated to the Atari ST. And it comes
out monthly, too.

till

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THIS WEEK

buy-outs... will they

end? Symantec, not

ergers,
never
content with having Norton

under its wing, has recently acquired
Zortech, producer of C++ compilers for
DOS, Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, and
Unix. Without even waiting for the dust to
settle, Symantec also announced Zortech
C++ 3.0 for DOS, Windows, and OS/2.

“Other compilers don't have the
capacity to handle our development.
Zortech's compiler is head and
shoulders above the competition,” said
Gordon Eubanks, president and chief
executive officer of Symantec, which has
been using the C++ compiler internally.

The new C++ release is available in
three configurations:

@ Zortech C++ for Windows 3.0, a
£249.95 16-bit compiler for DOS
and Windows,

€ The £99.95 Zortech C++
Developer's Edition 3.0, which
includes the Zortech 386 DOS
‘extender and support for Windows
and OS/2 1.x.

€ The £599.95 Zortech C++
Science and Engineering Edition
3.0, which simplifies numerical
computing.

Industry comment on the acquisition
was positive:

VENTURA
BUNDLE

Ventura Software will bundle Adobe
Type Manager with its upcoming
Ventura Publisher 4.0 for Windows
desktop publisher.

T Call 0101 800 822 8221.

“Symantec's acquisition of Zortech
heats up the language battle with a third
serious player,” said Esther Dyson,
editor of the New York-based Release
1.0 industry newsletter.

“Zortech C++ is faster and more
sophisticated than Borland C++,” said
Bobby Orbach, president of the consulting
firm Orbach Inc, in New York. “Zortech
gives Symantec а highly technical
language and a good market share.”

“Œ Contact Symantec on 0628 777677.

C++ PLUS

Borland has launched a number of new
bundles in the US including two to
accompany its successful C++ product.
@ Turbo C++ & Turbo Vision, which
combines version 1.0 of Borland's DOS-
based C++ compiler and integrated
development environment with its
application framework. The package
costs $199.95. Other class objects
provided include an editor, calendar, and
a calculator.
е Resource Workshop is an integrated,
visual tool for developing Windows
resources such as icons, dialogue
boxes, bit maps and fonts without
programming

The $49.95 package also includes a
set of custom dialogues that Borland
uses in its own products. These include
three-dimensional radio buttons, check
boxes with a chiselled-steel appearance,
push buttons that can include bit-map
graphics and text, and dialogue boxes
that appear to stand out from the screen.
€ Borland C++ & Application
Frameworks contains the company's
C++ compiler for DOS and Windows, as
well as Windows and DOS application
frameworks,

The $695 bundle includes C++
versions of ObjectWindows for Windows
and Turbo Vision for DOS — both class

€ The programming language war set to
hot up as Symantec buys up Zortech

€ Wordstar gets in on the Windows act
€ Sneak Preview of Monkey Island 2

libraries for creating user interfaces in
Windows and DOS, respectively.

Full source code for both class
libraries is also included. UK prices were
unavailable going to press but all the
products should be available now.

Borland are on 0734 320022.

WORDSTAR WINDOWS
Apparently, WordStar — International
delivered beta versions of its Windows
word processor to testers late last
month.

Many current WordStar users will
want to make the switch to Windows,
according to Dan Ness, a microcomputer
industry апау at Computer
Intelligence, a market research firm in La
Jolla, California.

‘This gets closer to [WordStar's
DOS product] than any other Windows
word processor, including Word and
WordPerfect,” he said. The established
customer base, “is the gold mine for
WordStar, but it will be tough. They need
to do something like this to get the
attention of the market again.

“WordStar for Windows has a good
interface, an extended feature set, and is
easier to use than WordStar 2000,” said
Ness.

WordStar for Windows will also let
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15 Contact Wordstar International on
081-643 8866.

SOUPED-UP SUPERCALC
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formula evaluation and computational
logic. Resident memory is, apparently,
more efficiently utilised and expanded
memory overhead is reduced.
CA-SuperCalc 5.1's user interface

DOS 5 CORNER

What on earth is going on when you
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If your system includes a third
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SMARTDRIVE, you may receive an
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SMARTDRIVE to load by specifying the
Ip switch.

However, doing so may corrupt
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1024 cylinders or is not supported by
the system's ROM BIOS in which cases
avoid SMARTDRIVE.

can be tailored with a choice of several
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on-screen. Version 5.1 is also capable of
unlocking all spreadsheet files on a
network at once. Three-dimensional
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let menu commands, including database
functions, be applied to multi-page
spreadsheets.

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ΠComputer Associates is 0101 516
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NORTON UPGRADE
Norton Utilities 6.01, a maintenance
update for "all known and verifiable
problems" in 6.0, is shipping free to
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According to Symantec some
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ΠCall Symantec on 0628 777677.
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LE CHUCK RETURNS FOR A BIT MORE MONKEY BUSINESS

One of the most hilarious games.

sequel.

Lucasfilm's Monkey Island
2- Le Chuck's Revenge sees the
return of our hero Guybrush
Threepwood.

In the original Guybrush
was well rid of Le Chuck.
However, Le Chuck's brother is
now out for revenge.

Monkey Island 2 promises
to serve up plenty more humour,
the return of many of the original
characters (Stan, Governor
Marley, etc) and wonderful VGA,
256-colour graphics.

Out and about, via US Gold,
on the PC in November, Monkey
Island 2 will support all popular
sound boards.

56 *NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS • 14 SEPTEMBER 1991

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According to James Leach - everybody’s doing it - big PD games compendiums, that is. So this
week get your joystick into gear for great gameplay on the latest games up for grabs

verybody seems to be doing big
Е. compendiums at the

moment. I'm not complaining; |
anything that could keep the kids quiet |
over the holiday has to be a good thing,
especially if it's as cheap as Public |
Domain.

One such disk packed full of
goodies is Games Galore Vol. 8 from
17-Bit Software. It's available for the
trusty Commodore Amiga and contains
no less than seven different programs all
designed to keep you occupied while you
wait for something important to happen
in your life.

The first game is called Space |
Wars. Yes, with a name like that it's got |
|
|

to be good. Space Wars is, shall we say,
reminiscent of Asteroids, Blasteroids
or any other game which sees you
skating around the screen in zero gravity
using your woefully inadequate thrusters
to get you closer to the enemy. For this
is what Space Wars is all about. You |
and a friend blast around, trying to shoot |

each other whiles at the same time,
steering clear of each other.

Making things a lot harder and
altogether more interesting are a couple
of heavenly bodies which have their own
gravity. So you must contend with being
sucked into the planets (or suns or
whatever they are) as well as the
combat. If you're clever you can learn to
slingshot your way around these planets,
thus bouncing yourself to parts of the
screen your partner didn't expect.

ALIENS STRIKE BACK
Another feature of Space Wars not
commonly seen on games of that ilk is
the inclusion of communications |
software. Yes, it's possible to link your
Amiga to someone else's either by a
cable between them or across the phone
lines using modems.

Space Wars is not an earth-
shattering game (pun intended) but it’s a |
lot of fun and the large range of options
(you can, for example, alter the

g

* Tiny sprite blasting with Space
Wars on the Amiga

gravitational strengths of the planets)
adds a fair bit to the life expectancy of
the program.

|
BOMBS AWAY! |
Another classic arcade standby is on
Games Galore Vol 8. 105 Missile |
Command. The scenario is simple
Someone is firing Inter Continental
Ballistic Missiles at your cities (it can't be
the Russians, not now) You must
position the crosshairs of the mouse in
the path of these missiles and explode

big balls of, er, plasma. If the missiles hit
these they are terminated. The difficulty
(and the fun) arises when the missiles
speed in from all directions, forcing you
to scoot across the screen perpetually
trying to catch them, If any get through
and hit your cities, chilling mushroom
clouds sprout up. Lose all your cities and
#5 game over.

You only have a limited number of
these exploding plasma balls, so you
must learn to intercept the missiles in
such a way that you take out several with
each blast. Missile Command has been
around almost as long as computers with
mice, and it's still great fun today.

TRIP OF A LIFETIME
17-Bit has included a puzzle game on its
compilation as well. Trippin (sic) is an
idea | haven't encountered before. A
board is set up with two different
coloured pawns of and two ‘home
squares’. The plan is to move your pawn
on to its home. But each square has

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D113) Silents Scroller
0115) Utopia Cartoon Slides
D117) Bunsen Burner
D119) The Link Megademo
D122) Ghost Pool

D124) Scoopex Seven Sins
D126) Disney Slideshow
D128) Sleeping Bag Demo
D130) System 5 Demo

D134) Share And Enjoy 46
D136) Thames TV Demo
D138) Vision Megademo
D140) Fast Cars Slideshow
D142) Mobed
D145) Kefrens Wall Demo
D147) Beast 2 Preview
D149) Treacl
D151) Share and Enjoy 47
D153) Simpsons Mini Mega
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D155) Glass World Animation
D157) Congaman Animation

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arrows on it which indicate the possible
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you to go in a roundabout route to get to
the home square.

It sounds complicated and tedious,
but when you get into it, Tripppin is
rather engrossing. One thing | wasn't
sure about, however, was whether the
directional arrows were random every
turn. Sometimes it was all rather too
easy, either for the computer or myself.

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and dozens more. It's almost as useful as
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Strictly PD is a Bristol based outfit
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currently available from it contain Demo
creation programs. Never having created a
demo before, and curious as to why
Strictly PD should be distributing two
programs that do exactly the same thing, |
pitted one against the other.

* Professional Demo Creator is
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Next comes the Red Sector Demo
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greater points value than theirs. Hmm.
I'm not too sure about this one.

Finally there's an adventure game
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samples which fall into two categories.
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War, and when you tap any of the
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missiles and rocketry.

The other program is categorised as |
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Nice going, Strictly PD.

DAY BY DAY

For the ST, The South West Software
Library has got a rather nice utility. It's a
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and allows you to type in events for any
day in the future. On the day, it alerts
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THINGS THAT MAKE |
YOU GO HMM |
The Caledonia PDL has been busy with
ST PD recently. From it comes a Things
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* Things Not To Do on the ST. Gory,
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how not to lose at Karate by cheating
and how not to get seriously hurt whilst
engaging in dangerous combat. Its
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On a more sensible note, Financier
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* On the ST, Companion is a fast and
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| smooth, fast and hard enough to keep

necessarily keep a tight rein over your
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you coming back for that extra go. Just |
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SWANKY MAGGIE
Maggie 5 has absolutely nothing to do |
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actually a magazine on a disk for the ST. |
There are several of these around, but
the Maggie series is worthy of note |
because it crams over 1.3 Mb of picture
data alone on to each disk |

Produced by Michael Schlüssler, it
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© DELTA (64/128 PUBLIC РОМАН - Send
SAE for details to Delta PD, 39 Station Road,
Claydon, Ipswich, Suffolk IP6 OHS.:

е BROADSWORD PUBLIC DOMAIN - Atari
ST PD. 70p per disk. Send disk plus SAE to
Flat 4, Moreton Court, 212 Dover Road,
Walmer, Deal, Kent СТ14 7NB. Over 350
disks

€ MONSTER CABLE - Free ST PD, honest!
Just the price of a stamp. Puts all others ST

DRAGON PD - Programmers wanted for Amstrad,
CPC 6128 PD library. For more information, write
1o: Dragon Road, 415 (fiat) Whitehall Road, Bristol,
855 73P.

DYNAMIX PD — PC, Amiga and C64 Public
Domain. All new and best titles. For free detals
contact 132 Springwood, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff CF2
6UF. SAE appreciated.

EAST MIDLAND PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY —
54 Watnall Road, Hucknall, Nottingham NG15 ТЬЕ.
ED's FREE PDL - Public Domain for the Atari ST
Send your list for mine. 1-4-1 basis. EJ Carter, 184
Hatters Lane, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 7LY.
EDLIB - Interactive, educational and productivity
compilations of PD for Amiga. £1.50. All regular PD
only 89p. Graphics Master 1 and 2, graphic image
manipulation PD software at only £3. Contact Edib,
Scotland Farm, Stockwood Road, Brislington,
Bristol BS4 SLU.

ELMSOFT - PO Box 17, Loughton, Essex IG10
2EE.

ESSEX SHAREWARE LIBRARY - Beginners
pack of the best of PC Shareware. Ten disks
£14.99. Cheques/PO to Essex Shareware, 221
Branksome Avenue, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex.
FREAKS PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY - Disks
filled with programs of your choice from a huge
range. Ribbons re-inked, recycled packaging, send
‘stamp for catalogue to Freaks, 29 Leap Valley
Crescent, Downend, Bristo; BS16 6TO.

FREEWAY PD - For the Amiga. Loads о! titles for
‘only 99р inbcluding postage and packaging. Send
disk for list. Freeway PD, 11 Elizabeth Place,
Somting, Sussex BN15 903.

GARNER DESIGNS - Spectrum PD. 57 Lovers
Walk, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LUS 4BG.

GOODMAN PDL - 16 Conrad Close, Meir Hay
Estate, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST3 1SW.
Tel: 0782 335650.

IMG CLIP ART - GDOS fonts for sale or swap. For
catalogue send blank disk plus stamped addressed
envelope or £1 to Е Renner, 62 Broxholme Lane,
Doncaster.

JACKSON'S PD SPECTACULAR - Amiga PD. D |

Jackson, 22 Victoria Court, Стоп Road, Worthing,
Sussex.

JAMES & JAMES PD – Atari PD from £1 disk.
Bristol 668137. PD swapped and sold.

JASE PD LIBRARY - utilities, games, demos etc.
Only £1.25 per disk. Write to 9 Broadfield Square,
Enfield, Middx EN1 ЭРА for a catalogue or send £1
for catalogue disk

JAY-DEE'S PUBLC DOMAIN SOFTWARE - Jay-
Dee's PD Amiga disks only 40р each for catalogue
send SAE and disk to Jay-Dee, 389 Scalby Road,
Newby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Catalogue
updated monthly.

JENNIX PD — Fast efficient and friendly service
Disks 90p each. Send 50p for a custom written cat
disk to Jennix, 66 Abbey Road, Strood, Kent.

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PD libraries to shame. Send SAE for more
info to M Sandhu, 25 Welbeck Road,
Maidenhead, Berkshire 516 4EB.2

€ FORTISS PD - Amiga PD. Watch the
magazines for our advert or send £1 for
catalogue disk to Fortiss PD, PO Box 2, Earl,
Shilton, Leicester LE9 8LU.2

© CRAZY DIAMOND PD - For the ST. Send
‘SAE and blank disk for catalogue and free
PD to Crazy Diamond, 58 Hillside Road,
Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 6SA.x

COLONIA PDL - PD swap shop! Amiga
and ST. Over 350 titles. One for one, Swap
free. For list write to 4 Eastfield Street,
Lincoln LN2 SES. Enclose SAE.»

€ SELECT PD - For the ST. From 35p a
disk. Send £1 coin for disk catalogue to RC
Newman, 22 Hall Road, Leckinghampton,
Cheltenham, Glos GLS3 OHW.:

PDL - Atari ST PD. Double sided disks supplied

wherever possible. Blank disk and SAE or 70p to:
J Kilner, 120 Wiggington Road, Tamworth, Staffs
B79 8RW.

KEANSOFT PD - ST PD for sale. Send SAE and
blank disk for copy of latest catalogue. Write to
Keansoft PD, 42 Lords Croft, Clayton-Le-Woods,
Nr Chorley, Lancs РАБ 7TP.

KEV'S PD — Amiga PD. £1 per disk. K Larkin, 12
Hathaway Court, Cheriton Road, Gillingham, Kent
MES OES.

L & D PD - Amiga PD from 35р рег disk. Monthly
competition to win PD of your choice. Also a new
digitising service is available. For info send SAE
and disk to L & D PD, 10 Hombean Green,
Pontefract, West Yorks WF8 2DX.

LAPD - Worldwide reputation for quality PD for the |

ST. Thousands of programs available. Disk
catalogue only £1.00. Credit cards accepted.
Telephone 0773 605010 or 0773 761944

LARD PD - Only 95р per disk. Amiga only. For
catalogue write to Lard PD, 41 Craven Road,
Hemsworth, West Yorks WF9 4SB. Enclose SAE
LEMMING SOFT - Amiga demos to swap. over
300 disks, List keeps growing by the day also want
two meg demos write to ;- John Simmons, Flat 45,
2 Sitvermere Road, Sheldon, Birmingham, B26
ЗХА

MASTER PD - Amiga PD to swap and sell, Send
SAE and list to A Hines, 44 School Lane, Easton
Bray, Bedfordshire, LUG 2DT 100 per cent reply.
MERTON PD - Cheap Atari ST PD. Send £1 or
blank disk for catalogue with SAE (cheques
payable to T Hug) to: 10 Grasmere Avenue,
London SW19 3DX.

NEURAL IMAGES PD - Send an SAE 104, Flint
Walk, Throston Grange, Hartlepool, Cleveland,
TS26 DTE for your free PD Disk. No catches!
NIGHTSHIFT - 8 Bertelin Road, Beaconside,
Stafford ST16 3JJ.

OWN PC CLUB 7 SHAREWARE - 73A East
Street, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 7DX. Send
blank disk plus stamp for catalogue. 25p each prog.
PAD PD AND SHAREWARE LIBRARY — For the
‘Amiga user. Send SAE for details to: PAD Public
Domain Library, 41a Saint Augustine Street,
Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 3HF.

PARADISE COMPUTERS (GLOBAL) - 9
Westfiled Crescent, Brighton, East Sussex BN1
вв.

PAWS PD - Lichfields only PD library. All disks £1
each. Swaps welcome. Send a stamped addressed
envelope for list to: Anthony Cooper, 14 Purcell
Ave, Lichfield, Staffs WS13 7PJ.

PROPHECY PDL - Atari ST Public Domain. Send
SAE and disk or a cheque for £4.50 to Prophecy
PD, 390 Coulsdon Road, Old Coulsdon, Surrey,
CRS 1EF. We have very competitive prices.
RIVERDENE PDL - 30a School Road, Tilehurst,
Reading, Berks RG3 SAN.

ROBOT PD - 2 Tren! Road, Oakham, Rutland
LE15 НЕ.

SAINT JOHNS SCHOOL LIBRARY PDL -
AtariST PD software for sale or swap. Write to St
John's School Library PDL, clo Mark Ash, 54
Beaconsfield Road, Sittingboume, Kent. ME10 ЗВВ
or telephone 0795 425653 after 4pm.

SCOTBASE PDL ASSOCIATION - Affordable
Shareware for PC users, Blank disk and SAE for
catalogue and details to: Rosie, 63 Springboig
Road, Glasgow G32 008.

SHAREWARE ELITE - Over 1,300 shareware
disks for PCs. Send blank disk and SAE for full
catalogue to 25 Cades Parc, Helston, Cornwall
Tel: 0326 564164

SHAREWARE KING - 3,000 items of Shareware
(ог PC, plus support, membership, plus discounts.
SAE and blank disk for details to C Smith, 10
Penwood Close, Westbury, Wills, BAT3 3LW. Tel
0373 865263.

SHIELDSOFT PD - Now from only 50р per disk.
Catalogue disk 75p. For details SAE to M Daniels,
63 Churton Road, Rhyl, Clwyd LL18 3NB.

SINGER PD - 62 Manor Rd, Hastings Е Sussex
TN34 З,

SOLENT SOFTWARE - Atai ST. 53 Rufus
Gardens, Totton, Hants 504 3TA,

THE SOURCE PD - For the Atari ST. Compacted
demos disks. £1.50 each. Write to: The Source PD,
7 Shearwater Lane, Norton, Stockton, Cleveland
TS20 1SH.

SOUTH WESTPD - PO Box 562, Wimboume,
Dorset BH21 2YD.

THE ST ADVENTURER'S PD LIBRARY - PD for
all ST users. Adventure, more adventure and even
more adventure. Catalogue disk just 50p. Write to
John R Bamsley, 32 Merrivale Road, Stafford,
ST17 9EB.

ST ICE PDL - Send blank disk or £1 for great
catalogue with programs included. Quality disks,
viruses checked. All disks £1.80 including
p&p.Write to 7ST James’ Close, Kettering,
Nothants N14 5HB.

STAR PD — Аай ST PD library fast ‘n’ friendly!
Send blank disk and ЗАЕ. for free PD and our disk-
based catalogue: Star PD, 1 Solva Road, Clase,
Swansea SA6 7NX,

STATE 808 PDL — Atari ST demos, art packages
and soundtrackers beyond belief. Very cheaply
priced. Send blank disk to: State 808, 3A Old
Lanark Road, Charluke, MLB 4HW.

START COMPUTER SYSTEMS - Dept A,
Barbican House, Bonnersfield, Sunderland 886
OAA. Tel: 091-564 1400.

STRICTLY PD —11 York Place, Brandonhill
Bristol, BS1 SUT

STUPID FLOWER PD — new library for ST users.
Send an SAE for a free catalogue to SFPD, 3 Read
Mead, Glastonbury, Somerset BAG BON or call
0458 35027 and ask for Malt.

TANK PD - disks only 60p (members), 75p (non-
members). Prices include p&p. Hundreds of titles.
Send blank disk and SAE to: 4 Chandos Road,
Redland, Bristol BSB 6РЕ

TOWER TOP PDL - The Coragen Corporation, 4
Cardigan Close, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3
ТЕ).

TRUST PD - 18 The Park, Southawram, Halifax,
HX3 9QY. Tel: 0895 53521

VENUS SHAREWARE – IBM Shareware: Amateur
radio, technical, engineering, education, Windows
utilities and more. Telephone 0252 837860 for your
free catalogue.

WARLOCK PD CLUB - New Amiga club and
library all tested and virus free (MVK 2.1). No
membership fee. Tel Mark on 0582 761723. 2
Mantand Avenue, Harpenden, Herts ALS.
WINDMILL SOFTWARE — Our calalogue
describes programs not disks. Disks filled with your
choice. SAE and 50р or disk for ST catalogue to p
Raebum, Windmill Software, 360 Windmill Road,
Ealing, London W5 4UR.

WIZBIT PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY - New
Macintosh PD library. Disks £3 each. Around 100
disks available. Introduction pack £1 from Wizbit
PD, 38 Greenbank Gardens, Edinburgh EH10 5SN.
WOODY'S PD - ST library where you choose
individual progams to fill your disks. Send disk or
three first class stamps for disk catalogue.
WORSOFT - Michael Andersson, Tjardalsgrand
11, 18341 TABX, Sweden.

ZEONS LAIR — Free C64 PD software send 35p
stamp for details to Zeons Lair 4 Garden Close
Penrith Cumbria CA11 7LD.

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do find any that you are particularly

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THE FINAL FIGHT?

US Gold's all-formats conversion of the
CapCom coin-op Final Fight is
practically complete, and expectations
have been confounded by what's looking
like an extremely accomplished job.

АШ versions, right down to the
Spectrum, feature huge and well-
animated sprites, but the Amiga version

* The 'On board the Space Shuttle"
section of Final Fight

* A group counselling session of
Steroids Anonymous

is quite stunning in its replication of the
Coin-op gameplay. Everything's in there,
and the only flaw | could spot was a
slight tendency for things to slow down a
bit when lots was going on on-screen.

The game features context-sensitive
control, which makes it easy and
instinctive to play, and it’s easily the best
example of the swarms of this type of
game currenly enjoying enormous
arcade popularity. After a traditionally
slow summer, it looks like the software
business is really going to burst into life
this Christmas, and this is just one of the
games | expect to be right up there
challenging for chart honours. Watch out
for ít

Met Wet тие PUBLISHES wach

(1 Thunderhawk Core Design AG

> 8 Rainbow Collection Ocean SP AM ST AG

- 2 Man Utd Europe Krisalis. SP CO AM ST AG
ЕЧ .: 4 Hero Quest Gremlin SP СО АМ 5Т АВ

| C. 7 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Mirrorsoft SP CO AM ST AG OT

в ^. 5 Dizzy Collection Codemasters SP CO AM

^; 6 Monkey Island US Gold ST AG OT

103135 viz Virgin SP CO AM ST AG

~ 9 Е-15 Strike Eagle2 Micrprose STAGOT

1121 Eye of the beholder US Gold AG OT

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Chart compiled by Gallup. © European Leisure Software Publishers Assoc.

THE LAST NINJA?
Also seen this week — an early version of
Image Works' new hack'n'slasher First
Samurai. Programmed by 8-bit hero Raf
Cecco, it's not unlike Core's old game
Torvak The Warrior in concept, but the
execution is on another planet. The
graphics are lovely if not earth-
shattering, but the sound is nothing less
than stunning. An original approach and
tons of atmosphere look like making this
another winner for the ever-cheerful and
open-to-criticism London software giant

THE LAST NINJA?
and in something of a resurgence for

the Japanese warrior breed, System 3 is
also gearing up for an autumn release of
its fourth ‘Last Ninja’ game, Last Ninja 3
(eh?). The game promises more of the
same mix of gorgeous 3-D graphics and
tricky puzzle-solving which made the
previous three games (Last Ninja, Last
Ninja 2 and Ninja Remix) such a
success, although some of us are
praying that this time the control method
will be just a little bit friendlier.

Last Ninja 3 should be out on most
16-bit and 8-bit formats in a few weeks at
the usual kinds of prices.

THE LAST NINJAS?

And finally (Esther), Image Works is

keeping up the theme further with the
imminent appearance of its conversion of
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

* Is Turtles 2 going to be a game to
set the world on fire? Maybe.

arcade game. After last year's atrocious-

but-successful first Turtles licence,
Image Works should restore its, er,
image substantially with this respectable-
looking beat-em-up, although ironically,
the subsidence in Turtles mania may
well mean it makes less money this time
round. Whatever happens, this has to be
yet another very good bet indeed for the
prestigious Christmas No.1 spot

TRASHED AND BURNED

The most lamentable lump of drivel seen this week...

GEISHA * Electronic Zoo * Amiga

„in which French and Japanese cultures combine to
produce a tasteful erotic adventure of sexy sub-games
and erotic episodes (it says here), Unfortunately, what
they end up with is a pile of Sherman and no mistake.

Geisha's various sequences include a Mastermind-
style code-cracking game where every correct code
results in an on-screen grope from a naked bimbo, but
since the information you're given about your quesses is
unhelpful and inadequate it's largely a matter of luck
whether you succeed or not.

Then there's a Lemmings-inspired section where a
naked bimbo swims along underwater collecting pearls.
while you blast away at enemies which she might
otherwise collide with. It might work if the character
responded to the controls in some way, but she has a
mind of her own which makes the stage unplayable.

62 * NEW COMPUTER EXPRESS *

* Geisha - the game that's as entertaining as
watching a bonsai tree grow

14 SEPTEMBER 1991

There's a completely pointless card-game sequence, a
maze shoot-em-up section called Penetration, and lots of
other stuff that's frankly just too tedious to go into.

The whole thing is wrapped up in lazy and annoying
presentation including lengthy intros that you can't skip,
annoying copy protection, and a quit function that's far
too easy to access accidentally. Add this to the fact that
you have to reboot (and go through all the intro
rigmarole) after every game, and you find yourself with a
game which will be consigned to the bin within 60
minutes of purchase.

The whole thing's about as sexy as ‘that’ Benetton
ad, and it doesn't even have the saving grace of being
‘smuttily funny (like Viz The Game, for example). Really, if
shabby pseudo-porn is what you want, there are better
and cheaper ways to get it (‘fnar fnar’ - Finbarr
Saunders) than this.

ALL FORMATS BUDGET

TOP 10

FOR EGG HEADS

Is there no end to it? Coming your way
soon from top inexpensive software
mogul Code Masters is..Dizzy V. The
second compilation of games featuring
their egg-type hero is due out in
November (in an obvious attempt at the,
er, Christmas No.1 spot), but this time
it's a little different, as most of the games
are new, unreleased efforts.

Joining Panic Dizzy and Kwik Snax
(two of our ovoid chum's arcade-style
games) are Bubble Dizzy, Dizzy Down
The Rapids, and Prince Of The Yolk
Folk, of which only the last named is a
traditional Diz adventure. Even so, it's
hard to see it being anything other than a
huge hit - the name Dizzy is a bit of a
licence to print money these days. ll

This is a collection billing itself as ‘The Ultimate In Sports
Compilations’. The contents (Gazza's Super Soccer, Pro Tennis
Tour, Continental Circus and World Class Leaderboard) would
seem to belie such a claim, but | suppose it's technically true for
as long as it takes for another sports compilation to be released,
зо we'll let it go for now.

Individually the games range from the excellent (World.
Class Leaderboard) to the execrable (Gazza's ‘Super’ Soccer),
with the other two falling in between (with Continental Circus
being marginally the superior of the pair). The collection does
provide a wide spectrum of styles, but with the two best games
available individually on budget labels, you'd only be advised to
fork out for this box if you're the world's biggest (not to mention
saddest) Gazza fan.

говузнея.

New Zealand Story Hit Squad SP CO AM
Bubble Bobble Hit Squad
Cabal Hit Squad ЅРСОАМ
Dizzy Panic Codemasters SP CO AM
Shinobi

NE Moonwalker Kixx
12 Quattro skills Сойе masters SP CO AM
11 Footballer of the year GBH SP CO AM
10 Dragon Ninja HitSquad ^ SPCOAM

0 6 Magic Land Dizzy Codemasters SP CO АМ

SE Alar ST AG = Corsmodore Amiga PC = BM PC or compatible SP = Spectrum
mmodore 64 AM = Amstrad OT = Other.
Chart compiled by Gallup. - European Leisure Software Publishers Assoc.

* FAR

* RIGHT ...and
the good...
the bad...

* LEFT ...and the
extremely ugly.

MACHNE

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Mastertronic SP CO AM ST AG OT
SP CO AM ST AG OT

Oh dear... Top(ish) budget software
house Zeppelin is about to unleash a
game under the title of Titanic Blinky.
The game puts you in control of
cute blobby character Blinky (last seen in
Blinky's Scary School), who finds himself
on the raised Titanic, attempting to
exorcise all the ghosts of the people who
died оп board. Sounds, ег, 'interesting'.

STAG
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* The great...

LEFT ...and

‘Hi, I'm Edison Carter, and what | want to know is...’
16-bit games fans have been waiting with bated breath for
this game for so long now that several hundred of them
have died of suffocation. The promised excursion into
cutie arcade platform game territory from the legendary
Bitmap Brothers has been the subject of more breathless
speculation and hype than any other game | can
remember and now, at last, it's ready. And it's Incredible.
Not incredibly good, though...

Magic Pockets is a game which is bursting at the
seams with gorgeous graphics, nice touches. clever
gameplay ideas and attention to detail. It's also one of the
dullest games I've ever encountered on a 16-bit machine
(or any other kind for that matter), and I've played some
real doozies. The programming is practically flawless, but
somewhere along the line the Bitmaps have failed to spot
that there just isn’t a game in here!

Magic Pockets promised to be the Bitmaps’ answer
to Rainbow Islands, but it's just Gods in baseball boots.
Gods at least had a feel that fitted the storyline, but if the
Bitmaps think this is what a cute arcade game looks like
then there's clearly a page missing under 'C' in their
dictionary. They haven't been able to resist packing this
game with their trademark metallic graphics, and it's
given the game a look that's as much in keeping with it's
professed style as Shadow Of The Beast would have had
with Tiki the kiwi from New Zealand Story as the main
character.

When you get into the gameplay, what you find is
something which reminded me of nothing so much as
Gremlin's dire Impossamole. Slow, trudging movement
and baddies which have to be shot several times before
they die don't make for an action-packed thrill-a-minute
arcade game, especially when half the time the baddies

* Is it any coincidence that
‘one of the most
predominant enemies in
Magic Pockets is the snail? |
think not...

* And here's a real cute platform arcade game
we prepared earlier

can't actually reach you to do you апу harm. This leaves
the Bitmap Kid (the hero of the game) standing around for
Jong periods, lobbing missiles at a trapped enemy with
the joystick on autofire and the mind of the player on
what's for dinner, or what's on TV later, or why the hell
he's sitting here putting up with such utter tedium.

Progressing on through the levels, nothing much
changes except that the levels become bigger and more
unfocussed, with devious gameplay design replaced by
ever-increasing numbers of harder-to-kill baddies. Later
worlds are full of clever little features (raining clouds,
growing plants, Speedball helmets, etc) designed to make
players go ‘Ooh, that's clever’ and distract them from the
hopelessly hackneyed design and boring, boring, boring
gameplay

The fact is, if this game came from some crappy
European software house and didn't have the strikingly
cute graphics, it would receive a deserved pasting all
round and sink into obscurity faster than the deely
bopper (remember those?). But no, it's from the Bros and
it looks pretty so it's the best game In the world, In a few
weeks’ time game players all over the country will be
sitting In their bedrooms with their copy of this and
thinking ‘Is that it? Is that what all the fuss was about?',
but no-one will say anything for fear of being the little boy
who noticed the King had no clothes.

Karl Marx was wrong. | know what the opium of the
masses is. Magic Pockets will sell by the million to
gullible fools with lists of tech specs instead of brains
and pages of hype where their critical faculties used to
be, and that depresses me more than you can imagine.
Have some self-respect, and don’t get on the Bitmap.
Kid's bike. You'll only be taken for a ride,

JUVMLIOS

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